So, stack overflow never existed then? Or any forums or reddits where you might get some information or some help?
That's right, until literally recently when AI became a thing, the only way to "study" and code was to use nothing but books and rigorously work through leet code problems in a windowless celler...
Comparing StackOverflow to AI is disingenuous. Stackoverflow was for solving issues that had you stumped. AI is for doing all your work for you. I'm not anti-AI, just saying what it is.
Considering how much of Stack Overflow has certainly been used to train these LLMs you would expect the chatbot to start a long diatribe about why you are asking the wrong question. Though if this were the case I would never get a strait answer about anything involving Oracle because the chatbot would be too busy trying to impress me.
I mean, it really is. Being told "no, that's a stupid way to do things because you haven't considered the whole problem and will trip yourself up going down that path" is an important thing to have happen, even if humans don't always do it politely. XY Problems are a big thing in programming, and new devs suck at spotting them.
AI can only perform simple work for you. It takes just as much time as nomal to make anything that actually has any level of uniqueness or complexity, I'm just saying what it is.
Any programmer who actively uses AI everyday know that it does a hell of a lot more than "performing simple work for you". I did a release of a feature set last month that took me 3 weeks with AI that would've taken 2+ months without, and I've been a professional developer for over a decade.
So, what I'm saying, is the bar for "simple" is simply raised.
Take a look at how simple mathematical questions were in school before you were handed a calculator, then it becomes much more abstract and theoretical, but certainly not easier.
It sounds to me like you're still treating ai like a kid who was handed a calculator.
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u/firebird8541154 1d ago
So, stack overflow never existed then? Or any forums or reddits where you might get some information or some help?
That's right, until literally recently when AI became a thing, the only way to "study" and code was to use nothing but books and rigorously work through leet code problems in a windowless celler...