Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely “yes:”

  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not necessarily directly, many people may have abandoned learning programming because of LLMs, rather than Stack Overflow specifically.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t think such trend would be so big. And anyone who has used any LLM for programming learns very quickly that those are very far from replacing anyone

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        2 days ago

        For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.

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          I use it to bounce ideas around with or get it to direct me in the right direction if I am stumped for further research, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I have it write more than the most gruntiest of grunt boilerplate code. It just can’t do it to a useful standard without a lot of oversight.

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            1 day ago

            Same, it’s largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.

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        People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

        I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.