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I use it as a SO stand in as well.

What I like about Chatbots vs SO is the ability to keep a running conversation instead of 3+ tabs and tuning the specificity toward my problem.

I've also noticed that if I look up my same question on SO I often find the source code the LLM copied. My fear is that if chatbots kill SO where will the LLM's copied code come from in the future?

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__grob|9 months ago

I use Perplexity as my daily driver and it seems to be pretty good at piecing together the path forward from documentation as it has that built-in web search when you ask a question. Hopefully LLMs go more in that direction and less in the SO copy-paste direction, sidestepping the ouroboros issue.

neom|9 months ago

Not a dev. SO done for then? It's been an important part of history.

ChrisMarshallNY|9 months ago

Agreed. It was a very important part of my personal journey, but, like so many of these things (What is a “payphone,” Alex), it seems to have become an anachronism.

Yesterday, I was looking at an answer, and I got a popup, saying that a user needed help. I dutifully went and checked the query. I thought “That’s a cool idea!”. I enjoy being of help, and sincerely wanted to be a resource. I have gotten a lot from SO, and wanted to give back.

It was an HTML question. Not a bad one, but I don’t think I’ve ever asked or answered an HTML question on SO. I guess I have the “HTML” tag checked, but I see no other reason for it to ask my help.

Yeah, I think it’s done.

GenshoTikamura|9 months ago

Yes, it's been an important part of tricking humans into sharing their knowledge with other humans to obtain a huge Q&A dataset to train the AI without any consent of said people.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/399619/our-partners...

ChrisMarshallNY|9 months ago

That's an issue. It will likely turn into a Worm Ouroboros.

There's usually some "iteration," with ChatGPT giving me deprecated APIs and whatnot.