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What’s the point of Q&A sites anymore?
Lately, whenever I consider asking a question on a site like Software Codidact, I end up just asking an LLM chatbot instead. Just thinking of the effort of distilling a minimal working example, formatting the post correctly, and anticipating the downvotes, is enough to have an aversion to the site. So what’s the point of these Q&A communities if the friction to participate often outweighs the benefit, especially when a language model can give you an answer instantly?
In short: LLMs are trained based on what we already know. I'm oversimplifying massively, but essentially they produce a …
6mo ago
Although I was tempted to add a sarcastic comment suggesting you could just ask this Meta question of an LLM, I do think …
6mo ago
Asking the last five or so questions on SO (I am new here), I felt pretty much the same as you do. I've put a lot of eff …
2mo ago
There are always problems that LLMs can't answer, or they give trash answers. Then you check the traditional sources, do …
5mo ago
Just thinking of the effort of distilling a minimal working example, formatting the post correctly, and anticipating the …
6mo ago
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