Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by conor- 512 days ago
This is basically the modern "google-driven" development experience as well. The copy-pasting from SO trope has existed for some time, but it's much worse in the last 5-7 years with the increase of blogspam/LLM generated content on Medium that's SEO'd to the top and effectively just rewriting the "getting started" page of some language/framework/tool/etc. for resume boosting points.

It seems like a lot of the models in ChatGPT and Copilot were trained on that content and in turn tends to produce a lot of dead end solutions for anything that isn't the 90% cases and often leads to more pain than reading documentation and building a solution through iteration/experimentation.