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That’s the point. ChatGPT has infinite patience for “low grade stuff”.

throwaway290 3y ago
That's the point, humans don't. Why call them hostile to you if you are wasting their time By the way low grade stuff doesn't mean a basic question, it just means a question that shows no effort made to read, comprehend, understand, research. Pretty sure I came out fair bit more resourceful and fluid-intelligent thanks to SO rules...
- Gigachad 3y ago
  They are hostile compared to most other platforms. I stopped using SO a while ago because it’s useless. You get much better results asking on a discord community where people are happy to help you out rather than spend all day scouring the site looking for posts to report.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    I use SO a lot. I almost never ask questions these days. I think this is actually what is supposed to happen, as more and more questions were answered already you don't need to create duplicates, you just need to search. The only questions left to answer is legit uncharted territory, new tech stacks or rare issues. I leave chat groups with many people asking stupid low effort questions without using search or any research. Signal noise ratio, waste of time. But there are chat groups where low effort junk is moderated away, just like SO.
- surgical_fire 3y ago
  > That's the point, humans don't. Why call them hostile to you if you are wasting their time If you think a question if wasting your time, you can just ignore it. The person asking the question most likely is not even aware that their question is shit. ChatGPT is just a much better resource for it, especially considering that most likely it was trained on many SO answers already.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    When I visit SO in a spare moment, I don't want to first skim and ignore 2000 (and I really think this is an underestimation) questions from people who basically want me to google something for them, because since my life is finite and I have other things to do I would never get to interesting stuff. It's all about respecting others time and expecting respectful attitude back
    - surgical_fire 3y ago
      Then there should be no complaint that people that would ask stupid questions (considering that asking stupid questions is part of a learning process) are using a different tool. I actually use SO as you suggest. I don't ask questions, if what I want to know is not answered, I just go and find my answer elsewhere. In the desire yo not bother the "incredibly nice" people on SO, I just never engage with them. Can't really get more respectful than that. For all intents and purposes, I'm the perfect SO user. ChatGPT, in that sense is an amazing learning tool. I learned more in a couple of months with it than in years of stumbling upon SO replies after searching stuff online. SO, on the other hand, is just about getting lucky in finding some old reply and the code snippet you found works, or move along in your search.
      - throwaway290 3y ago
        > no complaint that people that would ask stupid questions (considering that asking stupid questions is part of a learning process) are using a different tool. Hmm. Did I complain about it?
        surgical_fire 3y ago
        Did I say that you complained? However, we are in a thread that eminently discusses how SO lost relevance I relation to ChatGPT as a tool used by developers. All my answers are framed in this context.
        3y ago

That's the point, humans don't. Why call them hostile to you if you are wasting their time By the way low grade stuff doesn't mean a basic question, it just means a question that shows no effort made to read, comprehend, understand, research. Pretty sure I came out fair bit more resourceful and fluid-intelligent thanks to SO rules...

Gigachad 3y ago
They are hostile compared to most other platforms. I stopped using SO a while ago because it’s useless. You get much better results asking on a discord community where people are happy to help you out rather than spend all day scouring the site looking for posts to report.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  I use SO a lot. I almost never ask questions these days. I think this is actually what is supposed to happen, as more and more questions were answered already you don't need to create duplicates, you just need to search. The only questions left to answer is legit uncharted territory, new tech stacks or rare issues. I leave chat groups with many people asking stupid low effort questions without using search or any research. Signal noise ratio, waste of time. But there are chat groups where low effort junk is moderated away, just like SO.
surgical_fire 3y ago
> That's the point, humans don't. Why call them hostile to you if you are wasting their time If you think a question if wasting your time, you can just ignore it. The person asking the question most likely is not even aware that their question is shit. ChatGPT is just a much better resource for it, especially considering that most likely it was trained on many SO answers already.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  When I visit SO in a spare moment, I don't want to first skim and ignore 2000 (and I really think this is an underestimation) questions from people who basically want me to google something for them, because since my life is finite and I have other things to do I would never get to interesting stuff. It's all about respecting others time and expecting respectful attitude back
  - surgical_fire 3y ago
    Then there should be no complaint that people that would ask stupid questions (considering that asking stupid questions is part of a learning process) are using a different tool. I actually use SO as you suggest. I don't ask questions, if what I want to know is not answered, I just go and find my answer elsewhere. In the desire yo not bother the "incredibly nice" people on SO, I just never engage with them. Can't really get more respectful than that. For all intents and purposes, I'm the perfect SO user. ChatGPT, in that sense is an amazing learning tool. I learned more in a couple of months with it than in years of stumbling upon SO replies after searching stuff online. SO, on the other hand, is just about getting lucky in finding some old reply and the code snippet you found works, or move along in your search.
    - throwaway290 3y ago
      > no complaint that people that would ask stupid questions (considering that asking stupid questions is part of a learning process) are using a different tool. Hmm. Did I complain about it?
      - surgical_fire 3y ago
        Did I say that you complained? However, we are in a thread that eminently discusses how SO lost relevance I relation to ChatGPT as a tool used by developers. All my answers are framed in this context.
        3y ago