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And the real maddening part is that search engines have been so enshitfied to make way for AI that's wrong like 9/10, so you're forced to rely on it for answers because if you try google, the snake wraps around and eats it's own tail giving you an AI answer! stalin-stressed

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[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

It's not that different than using Stack for parts or boilerplate code (since AI probably just stole from that anyways). So you still need to know what's going on unless you literally just keep throwing prompts at every error for 3 hours until it magically works.

I use AI mostly to troubleshoot all of the vague errors that come out of python or SQL, not to write my entire code. It's a [relatively shitty] tool, not an 'I Win' button that everybody claims it is.

Similarly, I like having it summarize search results and I can click into the actual relevant links. But yea it's pretty garbage most of the time. I'm definitely on team 'fuck ai'; I lived without it before, I can live without it again