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Which AI have you replaced StackOverflow with? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/auai@programming.dev

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After seeing this graph about the fall of StackOverflow, it's clear to me that I'm not the only one who has stopped using it in favor of LLMS (large language model) alternatives. With the rise of generative AI-powered initiatives like OverflowAI by Stack Overflow, and the potential of ChatGPT by OpenAI, the landscape of programming knowledge sharing is evolving. These AI models have the ability to generate human-like text and provide answers to programming questions. It's fascinating to witness the potential of AI as a game-changing tool in programming problem solving. So, I'm curious, which AI have you replaced StackOverflow with? Share your favorite LLMS or generative AI platform for programming in the comments below!

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's not how I use it at all. I don't use it for things I can't do, because it can't either.

I use it for things I could easily do, but don't want to, or when I don't know enough about a topic to ask.

For example, I had it build me JSON of the top 100 Lemmy instances.

I also was having trouble customizing a markup renderer - it didn't know how to do it, it couldn't find anything on my situation, but I asked it how it would do it in a few different common libraries.

I still had to figure it out myself with some trial and error, but instead of spending a day diving into how parsing, tokization, and rendering work, it showed me what a solution might look like, and defined some terms for me in context.

Knowing what it looked like, I could guess what the library creator was thinking with the undocumented custom extension I saw in their code, and I quickly got traction