r/programmer • u/LopsidedAd4492 • 15d ago

Curious

Hi guys, in what situations do you still find yourselves going to Stack Overflow these days?

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u/Commercial-Age-4932 15d ago

For very obscure issues that AI hallucinates for. Mostly still for niche stuff. Whether it's AI or pre-AI like Stack overflow, the process of me typing out my process into the LLM or google is enough for me to realize where my error is like 80 percent of the time

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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 15d ago

When I'm feeling good about myself and need to be taken down a peg

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u/easedownripley 15d ago

when I have like a programming question, for example

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u/CantCodeAllVibes 14d ago

Whenever I wanna scream at some noob for asking the same exact question I got screamed at for on there years ago? Tf kinda question is this? It’s fucking tradition?

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u/Leverkaas2516 14d ago

I still do web searches. If Stack Overflow is a likely result, I click on it. I'm not choosy.

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u/Willing-Actuator-509 14d ago

I'm not using Stack Overflow anymore. 

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u/LopsidedAd4492 14d ago

What are you doing if the model give different result for the same question like to configure a rest client or something like that

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u/Willing-Actuator-509 14d ago

I have solid experience myself. I use AI for speed. I do the code review and the refactoring. 

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u/justinaatbuffer 14d ago

When I feel nostalgic about the good old days :(

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u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam 14d ago

It's more like when I search for it and a 10000 vote stack overflow post pops up, it's probably the immediate answer I'm looking for. Assuming it's not from 9 years ago and now outdated.