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Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35627632

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In my experience, you can't expect it to deliver great working code, but it can always point you in the right direction.
There were some situations in which I just had no idea on how to do something, and it pointed me to the right library. The code itself was flawed, but with this information, I could use the library documentation and get it to work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It can point you in a direction, for sure, but sometimes you find out much later that it's a dead-end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Which is, of course, true for every source of information that can point you in a direction.

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