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Why are programmers so rude to beginners? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 47 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, it's common, especially in programming. It's true that searching on Google usually solves the problem, but the biggest issue is that it's hard to know the exact word you need to use. They know the word so it's trivial for them, but that's not the case with others, and they're proud that they're out of touch with people.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    "Have you asked the clanker yet?"

    Most of my search process prior to LLM was querying google with keywords and specific phrases, clicking through several of the first page links that are from reputable sources, reading all of that, synthesizing an answer. Now that google has completed its enshittification of search, it's index is gamed both from the SEO grifters and from inside with them making search worse because it ultimately leads to more ad impressions. The quality of those first page links is directly related to how much the stink of money the topic has.

    I now pay for search with kagi (not an ad, swear) so that incentives are properly aligned. I get very useful first page links again because I can lens the search to exclude a lot of the SEO shit sites or only return academic sources. And I also use their robot assistant now for many searches because it can synthesize good summaries and good gists of topics from good source links. Prompted to always cite shit so I can always verify the clanker's bullshit, but trust has been getting higher lately as the models get better.

    At some point we will end up with a lmgtfy.com but lmpalfy.com (let me prompt an LLM for you)

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    but the biggest issue is that it's hard to know the exact word you need to use.

    This is one of those few cases where I've actually found AI to be genuinely useful. If I don't know how something is called, I describe it to AI and have it figure it out for me, then I go look the thing up myself once I have a word for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    This is one reason it could have been better for OP to not have deleted their question, as there are likely many people who would think to word their question the way OP did but don't know the more technically correct way to word it.

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