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John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴@nixCraft or until you prove an error in the documentation
spmatich vk3spm 
@nixCraft If the coding question has not been on answered on stackoverflow, will your LLM tool still pretend to have an answer?
Patrick Schmitz@nixCraft looking at the quality of a lot of documentation, it often ends up in figuring it out by yourself, with a lot of trial and error.
André van Schoubroeck@nixCraft You're lucky when there is documentation.
hanscees@nixCraft and then documentation is the code.
And it's written by someone who really likes using classes
And it's written by someone who really likes using classes
Derick Rethans
Richard Hyde@nixCraft Give someone a computer program and you can frustrate them for a day, teach someone to program and you can frustrate them for the rest of their lives.
EnglishMobsterOne new way I've gotten around this is by asking my question to Bing Chat (the ChatGPT thing Bing has).
It still gets it wrong 50% of the time, but the other half of the time it gets it right - and the rest of the time, it prods me in the right direction.
Mullaney@EnglishMobster @nixCraft Yep, I've had great results just plugging error messages into chatGPT4 and seeing what it says.
If it suggests a fix with which I'm not familiar, I can then google the suggested fix and dig directly into the documentation then. It's often way more efficient than google or the documentation alone.
DrYak@nixCraft wait, you mean there was a time when search results were useful, and not a giant pile of AI generated crap, unrelevant but SEO-optimized pages and bunch of old cargo-culted answers on some Stack overflow?
Who would have thought...
Who would have thought...
Yrjänä Rankka 🌻@nixCraft ”Use the source Duke…”
LouD@nixCraft
Or use your experience. These days it will be if chatgpt doesnt know the answer
Or use your experience. These days it will be if chatgpt doesnt know the answer
C.S.Strowbridge@nixCraft
I ONCE SPENT NEARLY A WEEK TRYING TO DEBUG MY CODE, BECAUSE THE DAMN DOCUMENTATION WAS WRONG!
That's when you get to pure hell.
Alan Hicks@nixCraft good to know my documentation has a shelling point
⚙ARC@nixCraft big if true
JustHoop@nixCraft That's the problem I hope AI coding bots will solve. They have vast stores of information and clever algorithms that will give me a different error.
pancake 
@nixCraft documentation??!!?