From: janburse@fastmail.fm   
      
   Hi,   
      
    > Chatgpt is definitely unreliable.   
      
   So is stackoverflow, you have no guarantee   
   to get a realiable answer. Sometimes they   
   have even biased nonsense, due to the over   
      
   representation of certain communities on   
   stackoverflow. But ChatGPT it is  easier to   
   re-iterate a problem and explore solutions,   
      
   you don't get punished for sloppy questions,   
   or changing topic midflight exploring corner   
   digging deeper and deeper.   
      
   ChatGPT certainly beats stackoverflow.   
      
   Also stackoverflow is extremly hysteric about   
   keeping every comment trail, and has a very   
   slow garbage collection. I think stackoveflow   
      
   automatically deletes a answer with negative   
   votes after a while. On the other hand ChatGPT   
   keeps a side bar with all the interactions,   
      
   and you can delete an interaction any time   
   you want to do so. There is no maniac idea to   
   keep interactions. Stackoverflow possibly   
      
   only keeps this interactions to be able to   
   send people to their virtual prison. Basically   
   they have become a perverted para-governemental   
      
   institution that exercises violence.   
      
   Physfitfreak schrieb:   
   > On 11/30/24 6:11 PM, Mild Shock wrote:   
   >> Who do I use as a programming companion, stackoverflow   
   >> or ChatGPT. I think ChatGPT is the clear winner   
   >   
   >   
   > Neither.   
   >   
   > One is a joke, the other is not reliable.   
   >   
   > The few people in stackoverflow aren't there to tell you what the   
   > solution to a particularly difficult, or novel, question is. They're   
   > there to learn from _you_. In interacting with those Bozos you'll end up   
   > struggling more and more to find the solution because of how idiotically   
   > they behave and try to make you hopeless, and when you at last find the   
   > solution all by yourself, they know you'll be tempted to show it to them   
   > to prove your point. And that's how those suckers suck others.   
   >   
   > Even the now defective Google Search beats stackoverflow. You just have   
   > to ignore its numerous references to stackoverflow.   
   >   
   > I mentioned "the few people in stackoverflow" because 99 percent of   
   > people who are nominally members have left that site forever and out of   
   > disgust. But SO keeps their membership alive to boast a large pool of   
   > members. They're actually a bunch of 10 or 15 people, all of them   
   > moderators, all of them cluless like any moderator actually is.   
   >   
   > Chatgpt is definitely unreliable. It can only throw you on some form of   
   > starting point that makes some sense. You must do the rest, including   
   > using other starting points.   
      
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