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For what it's worth, this problem predates Stack Overflow, and to some degree Stack Overflow tried to fix it. Before SO, the typical way people would find answ
by frenchy 5y ago
For what it's worth, this problem predates Stack Overflow, and to some degree Stack Overflow tried to fix it.
Before SO, the typical way people would find answers would be to go to their favorite search engine and type their query, and search engine's heuristics were really bad for this sort of thing. If you were very lucky, you'd get a (current) reference manual, but usually you'd end up with somone new web developer who had just learned something writing a tutorial for others and it was just the blind leading the blind.
I suspect Copilot will be somewhere in-between that and the current SO copy-pasta, with the main downside being that writing bad code is now that much more easier that reviewing it.