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In defense of OpenAI in this particular situation, GPT 5 can be incredibly jargon-y at times, making it much worse of a learning tool than other LLMs. Here's so
by abound 11mo ago
In defense of OpenAI in this particular situation, GPT 5 can be incredibly jargon-y at times, making it much worse of a learning tool than other LLMs. Here's some response snippets from me asking a question about dual-stack networking:
> Get an IPv6 allocation from your RIR and IPv6 transit/peering. Run IPv6 BGP with upstreams and in your core (OSPFv3/IS-IS + iBGP).
> Enable IPv6 on your access/BNG/BRAS/CMTS and aggregation. Support PPPoE or IPoE for IPv6 just like IPv4.
> Security and ops: permit ICMPv6, implement BCP38/uRPF, RA/DHCPv6 Guard on access ports, filter IPv6 bogons, update monitoring/flow logs for IPv6.
Speaking like a networking pro makes sense if you're talking to another pro, but it wasn't offering any explanations with this stuff, just diving deep right away. Other LLMs conveyed the same info in a more digestible way.
- wewtyflakes 11mo agoAsking it to clarify costs nothing and you end up getting up to speed with the language of the domain; everyone wins.
- jstummbillig 11mo ago> Asking it to clarify costs nothing It costs the most important thing I got
- Hendrikto 11mo agoAs does avoiding jargon at the cost of clarity, or defining every term for people who already know it.
- jstummbillig 11mo agoProbably not as much as people who heavily lean on their tribes lingo want to believe, but yes. I think we would prefer an AI that is fantastic as understanding what we know. If it's not, it costs time either way — which is not great, either way.
- Dilettante_ 11mo agoDeepening your knowledge isn't worth two minutes to you? Different strokes, that's fair, but geez.
- skywhopper 11mo agoWhy are you even doing this if you don’t want to learn? And if you can’t be bothered to ask questions, are you even serious about learning?
- nottorp 11mo agoActually it just demonstrates why ipv6 adoption has failed :) No one is going to do that for fun and there is no easy path for home networks.
- skywhopper 11mo agoI always wonder how useful such explanations could be. If you don’t know (or can’t guess) what ICMPv6 is (and how much would knowing it stands for “Internet Control Message Protocol version 6” help?), perhaps you asked the wrong question or, yes, you’re dangerously out of your depth and shouldn’t be trying to implement a networking stack without doing some more research.