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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by enraged_camel on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:45AM (#44309414)
>> To each his own. I'm completely drained after 30 min of "discussing" with an LLM, which is essentially an overconfident idiot.

I'm completely drained after 30 minutes of browsing Google results, which these days consist of mountains of SEO-optimized garbage, posts on obscure forums, Stackoverflow posts and replies that are either outdated or have the wrong accepted answer... the list goes on.

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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by jkestner on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:55PM (#44311503)
Using natural language discussion to probe for an answer is more draining for me than scanning a large volume of text (much like watching a video instead of the transcript is). I didn’t start coding for more humanish interaction!
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