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Re: "superhumaness" excels "stackoverflow reputation" (Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023))

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On 11/30/24 6:11 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
> Who do I use as a programming companion, stackoverflow
> or ChatGPT. I think ChatGPT is the clear winner


Neither.

One is a joke, the other is not reliable.

The few people in stackoverflow aren't there to tell you what the 
solution to a particularly difficult, or novel, question is. They're 
there to learn from _you_. In interacting with those Bozos you'll end up 
struggling more and more to find the solution because of how idiotically 
they behave and try to make you hopeless, and when you at last find the 
solution all by yourself, they know you'll be tempted to show it to them 
to prove your point. And that's how those suckers suck others.

Even the now defective Google Search beats stackoverflow. You just have 
to ignore its numerous references to stackoverflow.

I mentioned "the few people in stackoverflow" because 99 percent of 
people who are nominally members have left that site forever and out of 
disgust. But SO keeps their membership alive to boast a large pool of 
members. They're actually a bunch of 10 or 15 people, all of them 
moderators, all of them cluless like any moderator actually is.

Chatgpt is definitely unreliable. It can only throw you on some form of 
starting point that makes some sense. You must do the rest, including 
using other starting points.

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"superhumaness" excels "stackoverflow reputation" (Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2024-12-01 01:11 +0100
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    Re: "superhumaness" excels "stackoverflow reputation" (Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2024-12-01 11:37 +0100
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