[Driver4732]

I'm always skeptical of a recommendation to a technical problem when someone tells me they used an LLM chatbot like CoPilot. They really are just slot machines. Sometimes the answer works. Sometimes it doesn't. On the other hand, when someone tells me they googled it and found an article - not that AI overview crap - I trust it more because I know it was written and tested by a human.

[JodieBenitez]

"Googling" is pretty dead to me. Frontier model agents give much better, tailored to your case, answers. And it's faster. And there's no ads.

[jimmaswell]

I find human answers and handwritten code to be much worse of a slot machine. An article (or stack overflow post) has a not-insignificant chance to be riddled with outdated API calls, human-made bugs, unspoken assumptions of knowledge on my part or how the environment it runs in will be set up, etc. Meanwhile a frontier model easily deals with all that for you and gives you something that almost always just works, tailored to your exact requirements, with thorough test cases and validation that it works before handing it off to you. By the time you've hit roadblock number 4 out of 20 trying to adapt that human slop to fizzbar 2.0 because 1.9 was deprecated, the LLM would have been done.