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> 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

> 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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.
      - throwaway290 4y ago
        > However, we are in a thread that eminently discusses how SO lost relevance I relation to ChatGPT The comments leading up to my comment also didn't complain about ChatGPT, they all just piled on SO for no clear reason. Maybe you mixed up threads.

throwaway290 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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.
    - throwaway290 4y ago
      > However, we are in a thread that eminently discusses how SO lost relevance I relation to ChatGPT The comments leading up to my comment also didn't complain about ChatGPT, they all just piled on SO for no clear reason. Maybe you mixed up threads.