I'm in the opposite boat. Going through Stackoverflow answers has become quite a chore.

For simple things GPT gives me the correct answer most of the time. And even when it's won't it's quicker to discern it is wrong than trying to parse a given SO page.

Of course I still use SO for more complex questions.

As a rule, if I can quickly find the answer via SO, then chances are GPT will give me the answer more rapidly.

Respectfully, how would you know if you never use ChatGPT?

I said I don't use it. I didn't say I've never used it. In my experience browsing SO is way easier, more accurate, more precise, more controllable, navigable, and ... gives attribution.

For some reason , but a lot of of the answers here seem to care more about "but tell em /I/ solved it" re: attribution rather than helping the user. Somewhat egoist or some such? ( and I don't mean it as an aggressive tone, just ESL so don't know how to say it othrewise)

If I license something as MIT, I personally don't care who uses it for what purpose, hell I don't even care generally that they attribute me. I put it out for people to use. But maybe that's just me.

you spend more time on SO than me. without looking, can you name three stack overflow contributors? I can't.

I was offered a job a few years ago by someone who saw my Stack Overflow answers, does that count? I don't see something like this happening with ChatGPT.

I can do two, Jon Skeet (C#) and S. Lott (Python) are names I remember for providing great answers.

Yes.

>As a developer, if you offer me StackOverflow vs ChatGPT, I'd take StackOverflow any day of the week 100x over.

Really? Hm, I wouldn't. I can use nuance and clarify my answers and have a respectable back and forth (GPT-4 doesn't call me names when I mess up or say something dumb) and arrive at an answer.

> GPT-4 doesn't call me names when I mess up or say something dumb

I’ve heard this accusation a lot, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it happen. People call you names on Stack Overflow? Where?

>Where?

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or some such ;) You may not come across it personally, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. SO is successful as a QA platform(or was anyway) despite this shortcoming, not because it is a feature and it doesn't happen. If a lot of people are talking about the same thing, maybe people should at least pay cursory attention to the issue rather than "No, it doesn't happen" (Not aimed at you, but there are absolutely comments like this every time this gets bought up.)

You linked to a discussion of about a hundred comments. I skimmed it but didn’t see name calling. Can you be more specific?

Are you sure that's not an X vs Y problem???

I actually have no idea what you mean. can you clarify pls?

It's a common non-answer on stack overflow.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...

lol that makes sense, thanks.

And I'd take ChatGPT any day of the week 1000x over. That doesn't mean anything.