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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chat GPT is wonderful as a search engine for SO. It regurgitates the answers in a format easier to incorporate into your own project.

The thing I'm worried about is a lack of new answers. You need data to train an LLM, what to do if nobody is producing it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It already uses the docs and API references

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I typically visit stack overflow when encountering edge cases and bugs not covered by the documentation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it has learned from the source code you'd be surprised how good it is at that as well.

For docs it's better, for other stuff it's way worse than a human.

It's a shame so much stuff is locked up in discord these days.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 1 month ago

yeah, discord the the true black hole of information

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you mean trained on the source code, or having the source code in context?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Trained on the source code.

Yeah could also clone the repo and use copilot against it.

[–] Evotech 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ha! I have an AI for that! Gotcha!

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On, but the AI trains now on other docs that I used an AI to write...

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Oh shit...