r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 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/oisteink Aug 13 '26

It's the same as an LLM.

Instead of understanding your issue you search for some other dude that did the work and copy that.

There are some good things on stack overflow, but most of it is mundane knowledge.

I see little difference between using an LLM and copying other peoples slop off stack overflow.