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Well, I have all the sympathy for the SO people who are stressed out over losing their jobs... but at least a LLM doesn't chew me out when I ask a question that
by isoprophlex 3y ago
Well, I have all the sympathy for the SO people who are stressed out over losing their jobs... but at least a LLM doesn't chew me out when I ask a question that's remotely similar to one asked 7 years ago. And I like the low-latency, interactive rubber ducking experience way better than the slower turnaround on a SO question.
- balls187 3y agoWait Stackoverflow employees chewed you out?
- ramon156 3y agoNot the employees, the community
- isoprophlex 3y agoExactly; I have nothing but sympathy for the affected people but SO-the-community was on the way out anyway. I'm almost 40, I understand, and can tolerate to some extent, someone sometimes going into Linus Torvalds mode. But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most.
- balls187 3y ago> But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most. Hostility towards new users is an issue across most communities, see Reddit and Discord. Perhaps it has less to do with Linus Torvaldisms, and instead a generational gap between. Afterall SO has been around for 15 years, and it replaced the god awful Experts Exchange.
- aurareturn 3y agoSo how will the LLM answer your questions in the future if SO is greatly diminished? I guess LLMs can learn directly from documentation websites. But there is no human feedback on correct solutions or better ways to do things that SO provides.
- Moldoteck 3y agoIt'll get better and will be able to answer more questions based on sourcecode and documentation?
- zaphirplane 3y agoLLM do no answer, but kind of autocomplete
- Moldoteck 3y agoDebatable, but true, still, my point holds, it'll be able to autocomplete bettereven without direct hints / dataset from SO, esp taking into account GitHub & github issues
- zaphirplane 3y agoWithout the question text and the words explaining the answer ? I think those words provide a lot of context for the LLM to get to that specific response
- isoprophlex 3y agoWell, yes, and somewhat cynically also through eg. OpenAIs effort to pay programmers in low wage locations to create high quality train data related to programming in general (thus paying them to automate themselves out of a job)
- ofrzeta 3y agoI've seen support forum sites that have integrated LLMs to automatically generate answers. I doubt that feeding that back into LLMs will improve quality in the long run.
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