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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes there are better methods to implement something, and we can learn from others’ mistakes without having to make them ourselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How would chatgpt streamline that any better than other documentation and skimming things like programming blogs and stackoverflow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

“skimming things like programming blogs and stackoverflow”

Like this commenter claims he doesn’t do?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not as dumb as you are suggesting. I've been programming in various languages since the 80s and I can say with confidence that your take is, at best, absurd. Go spend some time with GPT 4.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I'm IP banned due to my VPN. If they don't want my business, that's fine. I'm not getting off my VPN just to interact with proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Isn't this why we use external libraries?