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This a GPT summary?
I can't lie, yes. BUT I used to write the same type summaries with my human brain all the time here too. Is it wrong to get all these points from an AI summary? I guess you could argue HN might as well just auto summarize every article now!
I think a common misunderstanding about Stack Overflow is that it's a place to get your questions answered. It's not - that's only a secondary use case. The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty high-quality answers. They're optimizing for being the first google result for "how to do X in Y language." They're not optimizing for being the best place for an…
What SO didn't expect was that their real purpose was as feedstock for LLMs that will consume them and surpass them entirely.
My favorite is people downvoting and arguing about answers I posted over a decade ago. "Yeah, I know that's not how you'd solve a problem in Python today. It was a good answer in 2011 when I wrote it. How bored are you, exactly, that this is how you want to spend your days?"
Stack Overflow can be a rather harsh experience if you're unfamiliar with it and have wrong assumptions about how it works. The "wrong assumptions" part is not intended to blame the asker, it's just a fact that SO has some rules that are not obvious if you're used to more forum-like sites.
I still find SO very useful, and I have no issue at all with getting questions closed. I may have received a downvote or two that I found unwarranted, but not more. And you don't always get an answer, but that is not that surprising for more specialized questions. It's still the most useful general purpose site for programming questions for me.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This a GPT summary?
I can't lie, yes. BUT I used to write the same type summaries with my human brain all the time here too. Is it wrong to get all these points from an AI summary? I guess you could argue HN might as well just auto summarize every article now!
I won't say that Twitter and StackOverflow are exactly alike, but to quit a website I also find that I have go "cold turkey" by making it hard to enter the hostname on autopilot or click a search result. That's why I added "||twitter.com^" to uBlock Origin on both my desktop and mobile web browsers.
They only gave two examples of their questions that have been closed, and the second one is obviously of a type[0] that hasn't been allowed for over a decade (long before they made their account). Nothing bad sticks out to me from their description of their first example, but the other indicates their understanding isn't as good as they think it is. [0] List questions have no single correct answer so don't work on a…
Do you have a link to the rule about asking questions with only a "single correct answer"? Out of curiosity, I tried digging around and couldn't find references to that kind of rule.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask
"List question" is meta jargon on stackoverflow that longtime users will understand. It falls under these "open ended" questions, hence why OP's question was closed as "primarily opinion-based" - IIRC it used to have its own close reason but got rolled into that when others were needed.
Here's a meta question specifically about list questions that says basically the same thing: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139618/are-list-que...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This a GPT summary?
I can't lie, yes. BUT I used to write the same type summaries with my human brain all the time here too. Is it wrong to get all these points from an AI summary? I guess you could argue HN might as well just auto summarize every article now!
I don't think so, as long as you've vetted it for completeness and accuracy.