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Re:Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT by lghh on Thursday March 09, 2023 @03:50PM (#35086503)
So are StackOverflow answers. When I look at something on StackOverflow, I am expected to use my expertise and the context of my work to adapt the collection of answers to what I'm working on. StackOverflow doesn't tell me anything I could not have figured out on my own, but searching through some library's source code to find under which situations an error can occur isn't always a good use of my time. ChatGPT fills a similar role. I type into it, much like how I would with Google, get some output, validate it, and adapt it to the specific problem I'm addressing.
Re:Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT by illiarian on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:17PM (#35086847)
> So are StackOverflow answers.

You don't embrace SO overlords though ;) Meanwhile with ChatGPT and Copilot people are losing their minds it seems. I've yet to find them useful for anything beyond mere curiosities and one-off queries like improving corporate-sounding texts.

Re:Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT by LordDragonfang on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:27PM (#35087715)
>You don't embrace SO overlords though

I mean, don't we? The number of times I've heard SWE humorously defined as "people who copy and paste from Stackoverflow"...

(My favorite: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/31/the-key-copy-paste/)