Most questions on SO these days are very specific so I doubt ChatGPT would be able to come up with good answers for those. All the easy questions have been answered long ago.
I disagree. I use chatgpt all the time where I’ll tell it “here’s my block of code” then “here’s the error message I’m getting, how should I resolve this?” I could easily see it working for stack exchange questions. Chatgpt is useful because it’s able to answer specific questions.
Of course there is some percentage of the time where it’s completely wrong, but I’d put that under 20% for the questions I ask it. And you can tell it’s wrong because the solution doesn’t work, but if I’m not familiar with the subject matter I could waste a lot of time before I figure out why it’s wrong.
Most questions on SO these days are very specific so I doubt ChatGPT would be able to come up with good answers for those. All the easy questions have been answered long ago.
I disagree. I use chatgpt all the time where I’ll tell it “here’s my block of code” then “here’s the error message I’m getting, how should I resolve this?” I could easily see it working for stack exchange questions. Chatgpt is useful because it’s able to answer specific questions.
Of course there is some percentage of the time where it’s completely wrong, but I’d put that under 20% for the questions I ask it. And you can tell it’s wrong because the solution doesn’t work, but if I’m not familiar with the subject matter I could waste a lot of time before I figure out why it’s wrong.
Which is probably how chatgpt learned to code in the first place.
No probably about it.
You haven’t learned to add “probably” when you’re sure of something on lemmy?
Probably not.
If you look at new questions asked, there are a lot of easy to answer, low quality questions.