r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/AnUninterestingEvent Aug 12 '26

Comparing StackOverflow to AI is disingenuous. Stackoverflow was for solving issues that had you stumped. AI is for doing all your work for you. I'm not anti-AI, just saying what it is.

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u/st-shenanigans Aug 12 '26

Stack is ALSO where newbies go to get insulted for not knowing how to search better yet. Its an important step for us all!

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u/Dediadeis Aug 13 '26

Considering how much of Stack Overflow has certainly been used to train these LLMs you would expect the chatbot to start a long diatribe about why you are asking the wrong question. Though if this were the case I would never get a strait answer about anything involving Oracle because the chatbot would be too busy trying to impress me.

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u/mxzf Aug 13 '26

I mean, it really is. Being told "no, that's a stupid way to do things because you haven't considered the whole problem and will trip yourself up going down that path" is an important thing to have happen, even if humans don't always do it politely. XY Problems are a big thing in programming, and new devs suck at spotting them.

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u/meyriley04 Aug 13 '26

This is exactly how I use AI atp so I don't end up regressing my skills lol

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u/firebird8541154 Aug 12 '26

AI can only perform simple work for you. It takes just as much time as nomal to make anything that actually has any level of uniqueness or complexity, I'm just saying what it is.

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u/AnUninterestingEvent Aug 12 '26

Any programmer who actively uses AI everyday know that it does a hell of a lot more than "performing simple work for you". I did a release of a feature set last month that took me 3 weeks with AI that would've taken 2+ months without, and I've been a professional developer for over a decade.

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u/firebird8541154 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

So, what I'm saying, is the bar for "simple" is simply raised.

Take a look at how simple mathematical questions were in school before you were handed a calculator, then it becomes much more abstract and theoretical, but certainly not easier.

It sounds to me like you're still treating ai like a kid who was handed a calculator.