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- Open issue on GitHub issues: Maintainer closes issue citing "Bug reports only"

- Open question on SO: Moderators close because it's too specific to a library

- Ask on IRC: Get piled on for not using the right vocabulary and your IP isn't masked

- Ask the LLM: Get hallucinated answer based on old API docs

- Ask technical lead: Get burned for asking basic question and put on PIP

- Ask my mom: She doesn't know enough computer to know the answer, but in explaining the problem to her, I finally figured out what I got wrong


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jeanlucasyesterday at 12:32 PM

Usually #1 actually works, most cases, and missing discord, several healthy communities on Discord nowadays

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inigyouyesterday at 7:42 PM

SO allows questions that are specific to a library.

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antonvsyesterday at 12:53 PM

You’re using your mom for rubber duck debugging, then. An LLM can work for that as well, usually better because it knows a lot more than your mom.

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