• anonymous111@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m new to programming and still in training. Is there a replacement competitor site for stack overflow that people use?

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      2 months ago

      ChatGPT or Claude. Just be aware that sometimes they’ll get things convincingly wrong. If you’re new to programming and asking simple questions then it should be relatively uncommon though.

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      2 months ago

      I usually just look into the docs, for most of the more basic things, search engine will find you the related function, and the docs usually have usage examples.

      Also, learning to work with and read a documentation will be one of the best skills you can acquire as a programmer. I was so glad I was used to docs, because when I started to work with libraries that are under NDA (porting games on consoles, most prominently PS5), where the only resource you have are docs and internal forums without any kind of tutorials, being able to figure out what you need from docs is really nice skill to have.

      I have tried using AI for non NDA programming questions, and usually I’ve ran into an issue that it simply just halucinates even on basic questions. For example, I was trying to figure out how to prevent Quest from sleeping, so we can run long-running automated tests, and all of the solutions were adb parameters that do not exist. Unless it’s something super basic, AI will probably just send to you the wrong direction.