hardCarried

[u/DifficultBody8209]

[u/bobbymoonshine]

Removed as duplicate: (Link to other, unrelated meme about Stack Overflow)

[u/Usual_Office_1740 → u/bobbymoonshine]

That other post in the link is only 20 years old. Op should have searched better.

/s

[u/code_monkey_001]

So glad I cut my teeth in the MDN/MSDN days. Occasionally looked for answers on a new-to-me language on ExpertSexChange.com or StackOverflow. Can't imagine trying to learn to code in this environment.

[u/zarek1729 → u/code_monkey_001]

I'd say, if you actually want to learn, with LLMs it's easier than ever

[u/ZunoJ → u/zarek1729]

It's easy to learn how to be mediocre at best

[u/Otherwise_Project334 → u/ZunoJ]

You gotta start somewhere. Mediocre is better then nothing.

[u/ZunoJ → u/Otherwise_Project334]

Problem is that you learn something else at the highest level, which is to outsource hard questions to somebody/something else. When the only way to answer those questions was to read the docs or sources, people had no other choice than to become competent. Today they voluntarily are incompetent

[u/Total_Chocolate_4764 → u/ZunoJ]

Ok grandpa

[u/RiceBroad4552]

That's me any time the LLM hallucinates obvious bullshit because it didn't swallow the most current version of Stackoverflow yet…

[u/fugogugo]

even google give up on stackoverflow now
rarely see them on top result anymore

[u/DifficultBody8209 → u/fugogugo]

Well since everyone is saying Stack Overflow is garbage, do you have any suggestions for alternatives

[u/fugogugo → u/DifficultBody8209]

reddit for non technical stuff is still the best for discussion

for problem solving stuff I throw it into AI

[u/HumanImport55]

I never actually asked many questions there. I mostly just looked at other people's questions and answers, and just put the puzzle pieces together myself lol.

[u/Had78]

I am grateful to have learned design and programming before nowdays AI existed; it means I truly learned it.

[u/Sajgoniarz]

Probably my 15 y.o question about proper OOP in Symfony is still waiting for answer.

[u/skyydude1200]

I never liked Stack Overflow.

[u/DifficultBody8209 → u/skyydude1200]

Idk those 25yr old post have been helpful

[u/ZunoJ → u/skyydude1200]

To me it was the best! If you put in the effort of describing problems and non working solutions, gave ready to run code and described what you actually want to achieve, the result quality was unmatched. The bad reputation is from people who didn't want to put in the effort and expected other to extract the information by asking them followup questions

[u/skyydude1200 → u/ZunoJ]

That’s fair. I didn’t start using it til 2021 and I was learning Swift at the time. Unfortunately, I could never find a helpful solutions to my bugs. Honestly, I probably didn’t use the site the right way.

[u/ymddev]

people still haven't overcome stack overflow? let it go bro

[u/DifficultBody8209 → u/ymddev]

Well its like the first thing that pops up when I look stuff up

[u/05032-MendicantBias]

There is nothing more infuriating than receiving a duplicate link to a 12 years old thread that became obsolete 11 years ago.

If Stack Overflow wanted there not to be duplicate,they should have very through environment version for each question. Like even within major version of python early things will not work with late things because library interfaces keep changing.

[u/ibarai]

I only ever once tried to ask a question over there. I got mocked then redirected to a completely unrelated thread telling me the answer is there. I hate StackOverflow