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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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I get that, in my case it was stuff I couldn’t find and even if it’s something that was already asked it tended to be slightly different than what I wanted causing more confusion still lol
Yeah, it's certainly not a perfect model :) and I will absolutely acknowledge that some folks seem to delight in their own smugness and knowledge and seem to enjoy opportunities to shit on someone. The way the platform works probably amounts to a certain "gravity" pulling those personalities in, TBH.
Yeah the issue then becomes trying to understand how else it could be phrased or what the underlying mechanism is to truly understand how to ask the proper question (or find the proper answer), I find LLMs helpful in those instances as it can help me get to the root of whatever issue more easily then trying to wade through the ocean of information online.