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by pornel 750 days ago
LLMs have been trained on these answers, and can generate "it depends" too. Sometimes they're even too patronising and non-committal.

Chat interface has an advantage of having user-specific context and follow up questions, so it can filter and refine answers for the user.

With StackOverflow search it's up to the user to judge whether the answer they've found applies to their situation.

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> Chat interface has an advantage of having user-specific context and follow up questions, so it can filter and refine answers for the user.

But it will continue to outright lie to you in those follow-ups.

https://chatgpt.com/share/767d2810-b38f-46e2-8cde-09248bb636...