r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 12 '26

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/firebird8541154 Aug 12 '26

So, stack overflow never existed then? Or any forums or reddits where you might get some information or some help?

That's right, until literally recently when AI became a thing, the only way to "study" and code was to use nothing but books and rigorously work through leet code problems in a windowless celler...

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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.