Comment by elbear

Comment by elbear 20 hours ago

4 replies

It can also do that if you ask it. It can give you exercises that you can solve. But you have to specifically ask, because by default it just gives you code.

nottorp 20 hours ago

Of course, I originally was picking on Stack Overflow's moderation.

Which strongly discouraged trying to teach people.

  • elbear 2 hours ago

    Oh, I missed that. I also missed that about StackOverflow, although I wasn't active there. It sounds like the motto of SO was "Solve problems!" instead of "Teach people how to solve problems!".

    • nottorp an hour ago

      It kinda went downhill at some point. But currently:

      > And ChatGPT never closes your question without answer because it (falsely) thinks it's a duplicate of a different question from 13 years ago

      ChatGPT acts exactly opposite to the SO mods.

      > But it does give you a ready to copy paste answer instead of a 'teach the man how to fish' answer.

      Here it acts exactly like what SO mods like.

      The other comments are mostly people thinking this is about ChatGPT...

    • nikanj an hour ago

      Alas, someone bungled the incentive system and a closed question counts as a solved problem