alt Hacker NewsIt's flat wrong to suggest SO had the right answer all the time, and in fact in my experience for trickier work it was often wrong or missing entirely.
LLMs have a better hit rate with me.
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vultour • last Sunday at 11:23 AM
It entirely depends on the language you were using. The quality of both questions and answers between e.g. Go and JavaScript is incredible. Even as a relative beginner in JS I could not believe the amount of garbage that I came across, something that rarely happened for Go.
jtrn • last Saturday at 11:49 PM
No point in arguing with people who bring a snowball into Congress to disprove global warming.
The example wasn't even finding a right answer so I don't see where you got that..
Searching questions/answers on SO can surface correct paths on situations where the LLMs will keep giving you variants of a few wrong solutions, kind of like the toxic duplicate closers.. Ironically, if SO pruned the history to remove all failures to match its community standards then it would have the same problem.