• YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I think you are right that the problem is often just lazy people not wanting to understand or use the tool in a way that is beneficial to them. But there are some good use cases for it, when I am coding I will ask questions and my session instructions are to only provide relevant links to source documentation that can be helpful in my problem and also provide tutorial links that could be relevant, never provide code or advice. I would say 7/10 times it gets me to the correct spot in the docs and provides some useful tutorials on the subject. Not perfect but I am not using it and just blindly trusting its advice, just using it to be a slightly faster search engine that gets me to the information I am seeking without me having to dig into the docs or jump from site to site finding the information.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      9 hours ago

      Sure. So long as you are conscientious about how you’re using it, it can be useful. The problems arise when people think it’s magic and ignore that it will always have a chance of being wrong.