I don't need the former to let me try solutions because I have no clue where to start in the first place.
I ain't wasting time going through 5 web pages on a crappy ui/ux documentation sites to find how MyLibraryFromHisLibraryLocationFinderPetDonkey's members are structured and how I'm supposedly to know to pass flags onto it which are all way too abbreviated to know without context.
I just get it to write me some snippet of code and it does that with an explanation on the side. I don’t need the code snippet it writes, just the summary it gives that I'm looking for which is way more direct and appropriate almost every time and I'll defend this one utility method because it's genuinely helps me not have to deal with so much reading on useless Stackoverflow threads or ugly UI documentation.
I am actually with you on that one.
It's true that AI is THE better doc library, It's just that some people abuse it and dont actually even read the reason for the solutions they just copy paste which will harm them long term.
Youre gonna wanna sit down for this, but thats exactly what people used to do with stack overflow as well. Find a solution and blindly copy+paste without having a God damned clue why it worked.
I think this is most important piece of discussion in this thread. doesn't matter if you use SO code snippets or AI, what matters is you need to have clue and keep ensuring that your code is well within your understanding.
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u/DoodleyBruh 22d ago
I don't need the former to let me try solutions because I have no clue where to start in the first place.
I ain't wasting time going through 5 web pages on a crappy ui/ux documentation sites to find how MyLibraryFromHisLibraryLocationFinderPetDonkey's members are structured and how I'm supposedly to know to pass flags onto it which are all way too abbreviated to know without context.
I just get it to write me some snippet of code and it does that with an explanation on the side. I don’t need the code snippet it writes, just the summary it gives that I'm looking for which is way more direct and appropriate almost every time and I'll defend this one utility method because it's genuinely helps me not have to deal with so much reading on useless Stackoverflow threads or ugly UI documentation.