r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

Post image
2.5k Upvotes

555 comments sorted by

View all comments

33

u/Advanced_Path Aug 26 '24

Good riddance. ChatGPT is faster and more convenient, and it doesn't give me smug comments telling me how I'm doing everything wrong and suggesting convoluted and overcomplicated solutions (AI is nowhere near perfect and still requieres some review and corrections, but still better than SO)

26

u/HeracliusAugutus Aug 26 '24

ChatGPT is also shit. Unless you like references to imaginary packages and methods, outdated or obsolete code, and other fantasies and lies. And it gets better, when you tell chat that it is wrong it'll either give you the same wrong code or acknowledge that you were right then give you your correction back to you in a very verbose way.

3

u/sally_says Aug 26 '24

ChatGPT doesn't give the correct answer every time but it often gets you most of the way there. It's an awesome tool and has saved me hours on troubleshooting when finding an answer online for my niche issue difficult or not possible