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It's not much worse than a random blog or a stackoverflow answer. They never give you a guarantee that their answer is right for you. But the nice thing about
by pornel 3y ago
It's not much worse than a random blog or a stackoverflow answer. They never give you a guarantee that their answer is right for you.
But the nice thing about ChatGPT is that you can give it more context than it is possible in a Google query, and you can ask follow-up questions.
- newaccount74 3y agoYeah, in my experience, Stack overflow answers suffer from subtle errors all the time too. Especially for basic questions -- the people answering and upvoting the answers are inexperienced devs, so they often upvote answers that are either the wrong way to do it (eg. reimplement something that has a very elegant built in way to do), or they just contain bugs (eg. because they mixed up the number of characters vs the number of bytes in a string). They are still useful, you just have to make sure you understand what you are doing and read the relevant docs before you paste the code.