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by ryanackley 1241 days ago
There is a chicken-egg problem with using ChatGPT for domain specific technical knowledge. ChatGPT is trained on data from sites like SO. If everyone starts using ChatGPT instead and technical communities die off, it seems like ChatGPT would quickly become ineffective.

You would still have documentation published by originators of the technology but a lot of programming is figuring out the quirks of things that aren't in the documentation or getting past bugs.