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minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoChat 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?
minus-squareGetOffMyLan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoIt already uses the docs and API references
minus-squareiii@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoI typically visit stack overflow when encountering edge cases and bugs not covered by the documentation.
minus-squareGetOffMyLan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoIf 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.
minus-squareiii@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoDo you mean trained on the source code, or having the source code in context?
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?
It already uses the docs and API references
I typically visit stack overflow when encountering edge cases and bugs not covered by the documentation.
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.
Do you mean trained on the source code, or having the source code in context?