From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   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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