It's amazing. These LLM chatbots are so seductive, yet mostly unproductive. Even for topics where I consider myself well above average competence:
Case in point: Got a specific technical issue with an unfamiliar Linux distribution? Thinking about searching for an answer?.. nah just type it into "the cat I farted"..
and then.. spend 30minutes wrestling with the "confidently presented solutions".. Does not work. Give up, sleep on it.
Next day....
TBC
Next day:
"go old school", and do a traditional search....That produced a "reddit" result on the #1 spot, because search sucks these days.
But that topic actually has a human reply to the same problem, with the correct answer and refers to the wiki for the distro (should have checked there first!), which also has human written documentation confirming said answer.
Needless to say, said answer works first time.
Total old school time: < 3min => Success
Total LLM time: 30mins => Failure.
indeed... the old skill of advanced searching is needed more than ever
Oliver Schönrock
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