Someone pointed out that this stuff is probably better viewed as a replacement for search engines than for people. It mostly outputs garbage, but also sifts through the garbage results google finds to give you the content of whichever stackoverflow page is relevant probably quicker than you can. And once that's aggregated a competent human can make sense of it.
so we add a bunch of natural language processing to search on the query side and now it's harder to look up specific things so the boys down in engineering cooked up this to pluck out the results i could've gotten 15 years ago with some knowloedge of booleans and regular expressions?
This lets you customize results better. For example let's say you ask it to provide a snippet of code to do X. You can then provide it instructions to tweak it slightly
Earlier you would search online and find code to do X but you would need to know how to tweak it
Someone pointed out that this stuff is probably better viewed as a replacement for search engines than for people. It mostly outputs garbage, but also sifts through the garbage results google finds to give you the content of whichever stackoverflow page is relevant probably quicker than you can. And once that's aggregated a competent human can make sense of it.
so we add a bunch of natural language processing to search on the query side and now it's harder to look up specific things so the boys down in engineering cooked up this to pluck out the results i could've gotten 15 years ago with some knowloedge of booleans and regular expressions?
progress is so cool
It's like the most boring version of a robot war.
This lets you customize results better. For example let's say you ask it to provide a snippet of code to do X. You can then provide it instructions to tweak it slightly
Earlier you would search online and find code to do X but you would need to know how to tweak it
i would simply get both the snippet and the tweak from stackoverflow