Comment by PeterStuer
Comment by PeterStuer 16 hours ago
I love leaning new things. With ai I am learning more and faster.
I used to be on the Microsoft stack for decades. Windows, Hyper-V, .NET, SQL Server ... .
Got tired of MS's licensing BS and I made the switch.
This meant learning Proxmox, Linux, Pangolin, UV, Python, JS, Bootstrap, NGinx, Plausible, SQLite, Postgress ...
Not all of these were completely new, but I had never dove in seriously.
Without AI, this would have been a long and daunting project. AI made this so much smoother. It never tires of my very basic questions.
It does not always answer 100% correct the first time (tip: paste in the docs of specific version of the thing you are trying to figure out as it sometimes has out-of-date or mixed version knowledge), but most often can be nudged and prodded to a very helpfull result.
AI is just an undeniably superior teacher than Google or Stack Overflow ever was. You still do the learning, but the AI is great in getting you to learn.
I might be an outlier, but I much prefer reading the documentation myself. One of the reasons I love using FreeBSD and OpenBSD as daily drivers. The documentation is just so damn good. Is it a pain in the ass at the beginning? Maybe. But I require way less documentation lookups over time and do not have to rely on AI for that.
Don't get me wrong, I tried. But even when pasting the documentation in, the amount of times it just hallucinated parameters and arguments that were not even there were such a huge waste of time, I don't see the value in it.