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by sanderjd 46 days ago
Yep, the first killer app for AI was, "hey, I'm having this problem and I'm not sure what's going on, can you help me figure it out?", and being told "sure!" instead of "this is a dupe, use the search function you idiot" or "this is not the right kind of thing to ask here". SO has always been incredibly useful and incredibly frustrating at the same time.
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AlienRobot 46 days ago
You have three options.

1. Ask a stupid question online and be called an idiot in your public record.

2. Go through the hassle of creating the nth throwaway account and get called an idiot in public, if you are allowed to post with a new account at all.

3. Ask ChatGPT and get told you are completely right.

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sanderjd 46 days ago
My favorite thing with Claude lately is it tells me things like:

> I think this is a great thought, but I want to engage with it seriously rather than just agree, so for the sake of argument, ...

I keep telling it to be blunt, that I can take it, but it just can bring itself to offend me :)

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bayindirh 46 days ago
The fun part was not searching before asking. I always did that. Also, not being told to ask better questions. We need to ask good questions and read ESR's guide on that.

The fun(!) part is spending an hour searching the site and meticulously crafting a question which ticks all the SO guideline boxes, and being yeeted out for a "duplicate question which even doesn't meet the guidelines".

At least give a link to the well-aged question, so I can see what I missed. Of course the answer is no, because there's no such question and/or answer.

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