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> Are you boycotting AI or something?

At this point I am close to deciding to fully boycott it yes

> If you try it yourself you'll soon find out that the answer is a very obvious yes

I have tried plenty over the years, every time a new model releases and the hype cycle fires up again I look in to see if it is any better

I try to use it a couple of weeks, decide it is overrated and stop. Yes it is improving. No it is not good enough for me to trust



You asked whether it's really better than "what we already had with search engines, online documentation and online Q&A sites".

How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes?

The "not good enough for you to trust" is a strange claim. No matter what source of info you use, outside of official documentation, you have to assess its quality and correctness. LLM output is no different.


> How have you found it not to be significantly better for those purposes

Not even remotely

> LLM output is no different

It is different

A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers

This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo


> A search result might take me to the wrong answer but an LLM might just invent nonsense answers

> This is a fundamentally different thing and is more difficult to detect imo

99% of the time it's not. You validate and correct/accept like you would any other suggestion.




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