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I'm curious if you think the same thing was lost with the transition from reading man pages and first-party documentation to going to stackoverflow or google fi
by 0x262d 9mo ago
I'm curious if you think the same thing was lost with the transition from reading man pages and first-party documentation to going to stackoverflow or google first (at least, I assume the former was more common a couple decades ago)
- bigfishrunning 9mo agoWhat was lost in that transition was the required quality of that first-party documentation decreased; generally that first party documentation simply didn't contain enough information, so you needed to determine things empirically or read source code to get more information. I do think the culture of "copy-and-paste from stackoverflow" harmed the general competency of programmers, but having more third-party information available was only a positive thing.
- newsoftheday 9mo agoBefore 2022 age of modern AI, man pages, SO and Google all were the results of humans, not AI fabrication and hallucination.
- coldtea 9mo agoA lot was lost then too.