Re: "superhumaness" excels "stackoverflow reputation" (Re: Im memoriam Doug Lenant (1950 - 2023))

On 11/30/24 6:11 PM, Mild Shock wrote:

Who do I use as a programming companion, stackoverflow
or ChatGPT. I think ChatGPT is the clear winner

Neither.
One is a joke, the other is not reliable.
The few people in stackoverflow aren't there to tell you what the solution to a particularly difficult, or novel, question is. They're there to learn from _you_. In interacting with those Bozos you'll end up struggling more and more to find the solution because of how idiotically they behave and try to make you hopeless, and when you at last find the solution all by yourself, they know you'll be tempted to show it to them to prove your point. And that's how those suckers suck others.
Even the now defective Google Search beats stackoverflow. You just have to ignore its numerous references to stackoverflow.
I mentioned "the few people in stackoverflow" because 99 percent of people who are nominally members have left that site forever and out of disgust. But SO keeps their membership alive to boast a large pool of members. They're actually a bunch of 10 or 15 people, all of them moderators, all of them cluless like any moderator actually is.
Chatgpt is definitely unreliable. It can only throw you on some form of starting point that makes some sense. You must do the rest, including using other starting points.