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giancarlostoro • 01/21/2025 • 5 replies • view on HN

How's this any different than someone 5+ years ago blindly going by whatever a Google result said about anything? I've run into conflicting answers to things off Google's first page of results, some things aren't 100% certain and require more research.

I'm not surprised if this will make some lazier since you don't need to do the legwork of reading, but how many don't read only the headlines of articles before they share articles?


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tempest_ • 01/21/2025

Part of it I think is the confidence with which LLMs return answers

diggan • 01/21/2025

> How's this any different than someone 5+ years ago blindly going by whatever a Google result said about anything

You can interrogate it at least. "Are you sure that's the correct answer? Re-think from the beginning without any assumptions" and you'll get a checklist you can mentally/practically go through yourself to validate.

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StefanBatory • 01/21/2025

For code; at least you would have to copy and paste it, and then modify, even if ever so slightly, to make it fit your code.

Now, "Claude, fix that for me".

lm28469 • 01/21/2025

Differences of degree, not of kind

baal80spam • 01/21/2025

> How's this any different than someone 5+ years ago blindly going by whatever a Google result said about anything?

It has "AI" in the title, so it's a hot take.