Man, I miss those batshit crazy threads about esolangs!
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And neither can get it right over half the time.
User: "Can I ask a q..."
Stackoverflow: "NO!"
ChatGPT is a narcissists dream app.
SO: “that’s a stupid question!” GPT: “that’s a great question!”
stack overflow at least is polite enough to call you a moron for asking
This is why I'm on Lemmy. You guys get me
This is 100% every normal person’s experience on there at one time or another. Having it be a dupe is perfect.
My boiled egg has to be just a little bit liquid on the inside 🌚
6 Minutes.
Sticky =/= Liquid
🧐😜💦
Corrected.
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Downvote harder damnit! I think I broke my screen
LMAO! Well, at least I can cry to Claude about it...
I found a workaround for this:
I start with "a buggy LLM wrote this piece of code..." then i paste my code for review, so they can shit and bash on it "you're absolutely right: that LLM done a disaster, this is a mess, look how inefficient is this function, here is how it can be improved..."
I shall try that. 🤔
That’s a stupid question it doesn’t deserve an answer. You should be ashamed you even thought about it.
Your description of the problem has words I've heard before, like "a" and "even"; marked as duplicate.
Closing as selecting the correct tool for the job is opinion-based
Whenever I see this, I know the answers will contain useful curated facts about each tool...
This has been asked before. The thread was closed with zero comments but suck it.
Now, that's the real SO experience.
piefed is working on solution and answer features and i can't wait for stackoverflow like communities without the ai "enhancements"
This sounds pretty exciting and I keep hearing more and more about piefed lately. I'm kinda excited for this new burgeoning era of the federated 'Net!
Well, if I asking for help, it's probably because I am wrong about something. So I know who to trust.
I usually combine both to unblock myself. Lately, SO, repository issues, or just going straight to the documentation of the package/crate seem to give me faster outcomes.
People have suggested that my prompts might not be optimal for the LLM. One even recommended I take a prompt engineering boot camp. I'm starting to think I’m too dumb to use LLMs to narrow my research sometimes. I’m fine with navigating SO toxicity, though it’s not much different from social media in general. It’s just how people are. You either take the best you can from it or let other people’s bad days affect yours.
One even recommended I take a prompt engineering boot camp
They always accuse the user of being the problem when using glorified if-else machines.
LLMs have a bit of RNG sprinkled in with the if-else to spice things up.
Have some RNG in your garbage AI, as a treat.
If SO doesn't have the answer to your question, LLMs won't either. You can't improve that by prompting "better".
They are just an easier way to search for it. They don't make answers up (or rather, they do, but when they do that, they are always wrong).
If you're planning on using LLMs for coding advice, may I recommend selfhosting a model and adding the documentation and repositories as context?
I use a a 1.5b qwen model (mega dumb) but with no context limit I can attach the documentation for the language I'm using, and attach the files from the repo I'm working in (always a local repo in my case) I can usually explain what I'm doing, what I'm trying to accomplish, and what I've tried to the LLM and it will generate snippets that at the very least point me in the right direction but more often than not solve the problem (after minor tweaks because dumb model not so good at coding)
That's a really cool idea actually. I never considered that you could use such a crazy low quant to, it sounds like, temporarily "train" it for the task at hand instead of having to use up countless watt hours training the model itself!
That's how I use these things, too. Not to "help me code", but as a fancy search engine that can generally nudge me towards a solution I can work out myself.
I do use the 1.5b of whatever latest ollama with open web ui as frontend for my personal use. Although I can upload files and search the web it's too slow on my machine.
If you've got a decent Nvidia GPU and are hoping on linux, look into the Kobold-cpp Vulkan backend, in my experience it works far better than the CUDA backend and is astronomically faster than the CPU-Only backend.
Will look into that when I have some money to invest. Thank you 💪
I've been having good luck with Kimi K2 for CSS/bootstrap stuff, and boilerplate API calls (example: update x to y, pulling x and y from this .csv). I appreciate that it cites its sources because then I can go read more and hopefully become more self-reliant when looking up documentation.
Unfortunately aged like milk, StackOverflow was an early adopter of the LLM fad.
People on Social Media: "You absolutely are an asshole."
^^^ Look at this absolute asshole!, ^^^
<--- also this one
it's getting worse too.
Just this morning I asked claude a very basic question, it halucinated the answer 3 times in a row. zero correct solution. first answer It halucinated what a certain cli daemon does, second solution it provided an alternative that it literally halucinated, the thing didn't exist at all, third solution it halucinated how another application works as well as the git repo for said application (A. doesn't even do the the thing Claude describe and B. the repo it provided had NOTHING to do with the application it described) I just gave up and went to my searx and found the answer myself. I shouldn't have been so lazy.
ChatGPT isn't much better anymore.
Me: You fucking idiot.
That's just the average stackoverflow comment
Answer: Why don't you try searching for the question first?
Me (confused face): How tf do you think I found this page?
Answer: Why are you doing it that way?
Me (sighs): Because I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm doing, is that what you wanted to hear?
Answer: Why don’t you try searching for the question first?
Me (confused face): How tf do you think I found this page?
I knew you write a function like this f(x) stack overflow has no idea what they are talking about.
fuck me