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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think such trend would be so big. And anyone who has used any LLM for programming learns very quickly that those are very far from replacing anyone

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I use it to bounce ideas around with or get it to direct me in the right direction if I am stumped for further research, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I have it write more than the most gruntiest of grunt boilerplate code. It just can't do it to a useful standard without a lot of oversight.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

    I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don't really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    students

    When I was a student I despised the idea of typeless var in C#. Then a few years later at my day job I fully embraced C++ auto. I understand the frustration but unfortunately being wrong is part of learning

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