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by BigParm 668 days ago
It's the best API searcher ever made but most people don't search APIs. They are waiting for it to make them a grilled cheese or something.
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It's the best API searcher for APIs which are used a lot. If you want do anything other than the most common thing it can be worse than useless. (I've been running into this in a project where I'm using Svelte 5, and the language models are only interested in telling me about/writing Svelte 4, and transformers.js, where they tend to veer off towards tensorflow.js instead. This despite me explicitly mentioning what version/library I'm using and the existing code being written for said version.)

Anyways, they can definitely be very useful, but they also have a golden path/winning team/wheel rut effect as well which is not always desirable.

That's only Svelte to blame. How can something change so much every major release.