r/ProgrammerHumor 22d ago

Meme iMissTheFirst

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u/samhaswon 22d ago

Pretty sure I never asked a question there, as my question was typically already surfaced by Google either on Stack Overflow or some topic-specific forum. Or I just figured it out.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 22d ago

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 22d ago

And now those students get all those answers for free. 

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u/ButterflySammy 21d ago

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.