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My boss used to say: "there is an easy way and there is the cool way". We no longer have StackOverflow. We no longer have Google, effectively. I used to be ab
by renegade-otter 9mo ago
My boss used to say: "there is an easy way and there is the cool way".
We no longer have StackOverflow. We no longer have Google, effectively.
I used to be able to copy pasta code with incredible speed - now all of that is gone.
Chatbots is all we have. And they are not that bad at search, with no sponsored results to weed through. For now.
- Mashimo 9mo ago> I used to be able to copy pasta code with incredible speed - now all of that is gone. What do you mean by that?
- renegade-otter 9mo agoMeaning I would get an answer from SO pretty quickly and it would most often work.
- Mashimo 9mo agoWhat is SO?
- DougMerritt 9mo agoSO is the website Stack Overflow.
- AceJohnny2 9mo ago> We no longer have Google, effectively Veering offtopic a bit... Google lost its (search) way years ago. See the "The Man who Killed Google Search" [1], and the room they left for alternatives like DuckDuckGo. At work, we have full access to Claude, and I find that I now use that instead of doing a search. Sure it's not 100% reliable, but neither is search anyhow, and at least I save time from sifting through a dozen crappy content farms. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
- lietuvis 9mo agoWhen you use a search engine, you can evalute the "trustness" of the source (webpage), this essentially disappears when using a chatbot
- nly 9mo agoOnly if you're dumb about it. Asking for source links is one thing I do all the time, and chatgpt gives citations by default.
- flexagoon 9mo agoWhat's the benefit of using a chatbot if you still have to go and read all of it's sources on your own?
- tkocmathla 9mo agoThe same, I suppose, as using Wikipedia to get an overview of a topic, a surface understanding, before following the citations to dig deeper and fully validate the summary.
- ljm 9mo agoAt least for the time being the chatbot isn't optimised to deliver as many ads or sponsored results to your eyeballs as physically possible.
- AlexCoventry 9mo agoYou can get precise citations supporting the facts of interest to you, so that you don't have to dig through the sources on your own.