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  • To an extent, but it’s often just wrong about stuff.

    It’s been a good second step for things I have questions about that I can’t immediately find good search results for. I don’t wanna get off topic but I have major beef with Stack Overflow and posting questions there makes me anxious as hell because I’ll do so much diligence to make sure it is clear, reproducible, and not a duplicate only for my questions to still get closed. It’s a major fucking waste of my time. Why put all that effort in when it’s still going to get closed?? Anyways – ChatGPT never gets mad at me. Sure, it’s often wrong as hell but it never berates me or makes me feel stupid for asking a question. It generally gets me close enough on topics that I can search for other terms in search engines and get different results that are more helpful.




  • Possibly. But… Here’s the thing. I’ve dealt with “business rules” engines before at a job. I used a few different ones. The idea is always to make coding simpler so non technical people can do it. Unless you couldn’t tell from context, I’m a software engineer lol. I was the one writing and troubleshooting those tools. And it was harder than if it was just in a “normal” language like Java or whatever.

    I have a soft spot for this area and there’s a non zero chance this comment makes me obsess over them again for a bit lol. But the point I’m making is that “normal” coding was always better and more useful.

    It’s not a perfect comparison because LLMs output “real” code and not code that is “Scratch-like”, but I just don’t see it happening.

    I could see using LLMs exclusively over search engines (as a first place to look that is) in 2 years. But we’ll see.