• dvektor@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny how if everyone just went and “read the documentation” like they tend to obnoxiously tell you to do… stackoverflow wouldn’t exist. Personally I go and look for things I can answer if someone asks a question that I know will get obliterated but I can tell they just need some help. I’ll try to answer it before it gets downgraded and they get banned

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      1 year ago

      Have you ever wanted to do something from the uncharted area? Encountered bad documentation? This is what it’s supposed to be for, not handholding.

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        1 year ago

        Uncharted is quite subjective. I used SO most when I was starting out in SE. Looking back through the questions I posted, most of them were very much beginner questions that I would just know nowadays or know where to look for. That was what I used SO for. Beginners asking veterans for help. The least of them were due to bad documentation or exploring uncharted territory. As I grew more confident in the field, I stopped using SO more and more. The latest only for best practices on simple problems I don’t want to reinvent. And exactly those cases GPT now solves faster and I’d be surprised if not even better than SO posts.