I used SO recently to recover a partially transmitted zip file that contained only one text file in it.

My experience has been there are some really dedicated users, and the longer the time differential between the question and a detailed answer the better the quality.

Dude dropped a 5 line perl script that recovered 5000 json records from a file unzip would just cry about no matter what arcane set of flags I used.

@faithisleaping @BigShellEvent

There are crickets there.

The crickets don't like them either.

And then I'll get something clearly slopified, often contradicting itself, getting lost in a subquestion, simply restating all the information in my question as an answer, and speaking in ways that only LLMs do. And when I say "sure,I already said most of that, but <repeat core question>" and get a "You're absolutely right..." I just mentally discard that conversation as lacking actual value and have a bigger sense of unease at the lack of quality and validation checks for big impactful processes.

It's pretty demotivating, tbh.

... I kinda miss it tho? A billion primates banging on electric typewriters at any given time was really sort of brilliant there for a moment

Second, it clearly communicates to me that you don’t respect me. I put my own human time into looking at the code and giving feedback. You need to match energy. If you just give me a pile of LLM spew, that means you didn’t value my time and energy enough to respond in kind. This is basic human respect.

Third, it’s not Artificial Intelligence, it’s Automated Mansplaining. I’m an expert in my field. Mansplaining at me about my own field AND being obviously wrong about it is REALLY not the look you’re going for. (Like, the LLM “explanation” I got thrown at me this morning wasn’t even plausible. It contradicted itself in the first two sentences. It was 8 paragraphs.)