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I've been programming for about as long but I've yet to see a case where searching on Google (and often opening Stack overflow) wasn't quicker than ChatGPT. Mor

I've been programming for about as long but I've yet to see a case where searching on Google (and often opening Stack overflow) wasn't quicker than ChatGPT. More often than not if I'm looking something up I'll get a bunch of answers on SO and quickly skim through them to get what I was looking for. This is way quicker than prompting over and over again hoping to get an answer. But after programming for so long the types of things I'm searching are basically API references. I know exactly where I'm going I don't need help getting there.

simonw 2y ago
You have to learn how to most effectively use ChatGPT etc. If you use it the same way you use Google you'll probably get better results from Google. Here's an example from yesterday where I knocked together a tool for converting Atom XML to JSON using XSLT in a couple of minutes on my phone, just out of curiosity to see what it would look like: https://chat.openai.com/share/4bc7922b-b1c2-411c-aef9-b41b0f0e9936 https://chat.openai.com/share/4bc7922b-b1c2-411c-aef9-b41b0f...