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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, it can be useful in leading you to look in the right place for more information, or orienting you with the basics when you're working with a technology that's new to you. But I think it wastes my time as often as not.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

That's implying that the quality of information from other sources is always better, but I'm saying that's sometimes not true; when you're trying to figure out the syntax for something, documentation and search engines have failed you, and the traditional next step would be to start contacting people or trying to find the answer in unfamiliar source code, sometimes a LLM can somehow just tell you the answer at that point and save the trouble. Of course you have to test that answer because more often than not it will just make up a fake one but that just takes a few seconds.

There are some situations I'm going back to search engines as a first option though, like error messages, LLMs seem to like to get tunnel vision on the literal topic of the error, while search results will show you an unintuitive solution to the same problem if it's a very common one.

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