alt Hacker NewsMy boss used to say: "there is an easy way and there is the cool way".
We no longer have StackOverflow. We no longer have Google, effectively.
I used to be able to copy pasta code with incredible speed - now all of that is gone.
Chatbots is all we have. And they are not that bad at search, with no sponsored results to weed through. For now.
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Mashimo • today at 9:48 AM
> I used to be able to copy pasta code with incredible speed - now all of that is gone.
What do you mean by that?
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> We no longer have Google, effectively
Veering offtopic a bit... Google lost its (search) way years ago. See the "The Man who Killed Google Search" [1], and the room they left for alternatives like DuckDuckGo.
At work, we have full access to Claude, and I find that I now use that instead of doing a search. Sure it's not 100% reliable, but neither is search anyhow, and at least I save time from sifting through a dozen crappy content farms.
[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/