Developer crying and yelling: StackOverflow and forum sucks. Its code quality is questionable and poor.
Also, the same developer: Using ChatGPT generated code happily and telling everyone how productive he is now with it.
Where do you think ChatGPT got its data to train LLM? Do you think all of this code comes from the proprietary vendors' internal system? LOL. I tell you, some devs can be so clever but dumb simultaneously. Let us call them Schrödinger devs.
Well-established old principle: Do one thing and do it well.
Modern AI/LLM companies' principle: Do 1000 things, and none of them are right.
Welcome to the 21st century. We have robots that can provide you any information.*
*In extremely small letters: We can make mistakes, so double-check it.
@nixCraft Modern AI/LLM companies' principle: Do 1000 things, and none of them are right.
Unfortunately, this principle already works in programming: lot of programs that suffer from a lack of optimization
$ man ls
Is does one thing so well we don't need to modify it anymore
I love the Unix POSIX principle
@nixCraft the double-check it part is getting harder and harder every day IMHO. Search results are getting poisoned with the same flawed junk output as the LLMs are generating.
We should have archive.org-ed the Google search index database itself around 2020 or so, to make it possible to search without having to weed through the junk...
(and yes, the answer for many linux related questions can usually be found in man pages, fortunately those are still written by a Hu-man)
@nixCraft Jack of All Trades. Master of None.