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Seems pretty bad?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That example someone posted where the AI refused to explain the oklch CSS functional notation, and instead said it doesn't exist, pretty much exemplifies why this is a bad idea, although I can see how maybe there was good intentions by whoever implemented it.

In my opinion, the "AI explain" is unnecessary, as I find the MDN contributors already do an excellent job of explaining things as-is, especially in the Examples section under the documentation itself

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

maybe there was good intentions by whoever implemented it

If an executive saying “find ways to use ChatGPT so we can be on the cutting edge” and a developer saying “eh, I guess maybe…” counts as good intentions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Agreed, and the questions I have that MDN doesn't answer would probably be ones even less likely for the AI explain to get right.