Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
by nottorp on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:35AM
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That's a good point, because now that I think of it, I never pasted a full stack trace in a search engine. I selected what looked to be the relevant part and pasted that.
But I did it subconsciously. I never thought of it until today.
Another skill that LLM use can kill? :)
The "plain" Google Search before LLM never had the capability to copy&paste an entire lengthy stack trace (e.g. ~60 frames of verbose text) because long strings like that exceeds Google's UI. Various answers say limit of 32 words and 5784 characters: https://www.google.com/search?q=limit+of+google+search+strin...
Before LLM, the human had to manually visually hunt through the entire stack trace to guess at a relevant smaller substring and paste that into Google the search box. Of course, that's do-able but that's a different workflow than an LLM doing it for you.
To clarify, I'm not arguing that the LLM method is "better". I'm just saying it's different.