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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by skybrian on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:06AM (#37714667)
Programmers don't think that, though, or least not all the time.

You could say similar things about Stack Overflow, and yet we use it.

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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by dboreham on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:39AM (#37714858)
For any managers reading: Chat GPT and Stack Overflow are not the same kind of thing.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by airstrike on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:49AM (#37714924)
Indeed they're not. And GPT-4 tends to outperform SO in my experience.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by jprete on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:17AM (#37714736)
Stack Overflow responses are well known to be misranked. I’ve heard a rule of thumb that the actual correct answer is typically about #3.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by moffkalast on Saturday September 30, 2023 @03:11PM (#37718716)
And #1 is usually broken or wrong, due to its (typically) old age. The longer it has to accumulate upvotes the less relevant it becomes.
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