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Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by aleph_minus_one on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:10AM (#37898685)
My experience differs:

- Ask ChatGPT (or a similar AI chat bot) a question, it at best gives some at most semi-true answer. In the best situation, I can immediately see myself where the mistake in the answer is.

- Look at Stack Overflow: very often find an answer

- In the rare situation that I cannot find an answer on Stack Overflow, and ask a question: get a good answer (often many good answers) after a few hours that let(s) me realize that I have a lot to learn about the respective programming topic, which I will do.

Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by _rm on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:25AM (#37898860)
Pay for GPT 4 and use that, it's much better than 3.5
Re:Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction by JustLurking2022 on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:33AM (#37899681)
Very often find an answer

- from 10 years ago, and an entirely different version of the language/library

- from more recently, but it's been closed as a duplicate

- with a specific caveat, but that guy ignored and the question was also closed as a duplicate.

- with a wrong answer, that you'd like to post a correct answer for, but you haven't karma farmed enough