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> especially if you read the documentation for those functions Shouldn't that be enough in the first place? RTFM is a real thing.

• kragen 3y ago
  the trouble is that you don't know which functions to read the manual for. last night, for example, i was trying to find out how to get objdump to disassemble an ms-dos .com file with the correct load address of 0x100 rather than 0. google was unhelpful, but gpt-4 told me that the option i was looking for was called `--adjust-vma`. probably if i'd read the objdump manual i would have been able to find it (though the objdump documentation isn't very clear about what `--adjust-vma` will do on a raw binary file), and technically that's only about 15 pages, and spending the requisite half hour reading it would probably produce returns the next time i use objdump. so it's a reasonable idea but it's pretty common for gpt-4 to be able to instantly find the thing you need out of 150 pages or 1500 pages or 15000 pages. or the five things you need, and how to combine them. if you want to know what libraries can probably solve your problem, asking gpt-4 is a much better idea than reading the manuals of all possible libraries