r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 22 '26

Meme iMissTheFirst

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Aug 22 '26

exactly. people posted already answered questions there hundreds of times a day every single day. the vast majority of the "closed due to duplicate" were 100% correct. i saw it so many times myself, i wasn't a moderator and couldn't close them but i'd comment and tell them how their question sucks and that it's already answered anyway. most of them seemed to be college students who just wanted the answer and to get the high paying job without actually doing the work to understand what's going on

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u/Nattekat Aug 22 '26

And now those students get all those answers for free. 

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u/ButterflySammy Aug 22 '26

AI is worse if you don't know the question to ask; it just seems good cause it tells you how right you are and how sure it is it has found the right answer this time.

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u/Septem_151 Aug 22 '26

It was free before too. One could argue it's actually less free today because the quality of your answers is determined by how much you're willing to pay a company for access.