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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by elbear on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:42AM (#44307232)
Oh, I missed that. I also missed that about StackOverflow, although I wasn't active there. It sounds like the motto of SO was "Solve problems!" instead of "Teach people how to solve problems!".
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by nottorp on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:29AM (#44307465)
It kinda went downhill at some point. But currently:

> And ChatGPT never closes your question without answer because it (falsely) thinks it's a duplicate of a different question from 13 years ago

ChatGPT acts exactly opposite to the SO mods.

> But it does give you a ready to copy paste answer instead of a 'teach the man how to fish' answer.

Here it acts exactly like what SO mods like.

The other comments are mostly people thinking this is about ChatGPT...

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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by nikanj on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:59AM (#44307321)
Alas, someone bungled the incentive system and a closed question counts as a solved problem
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