Comment by milesrout

I barely ever look at StackOverflow as the quality of answers there is so poor. It was once good but the proliferation of duplicates[1] has really ruined it for me, as well as outdated answers not being replaced. Google search results are also crap.

I agree with your point, though. The "LLM" model just isn't a good fit for some tasks, in fact many tasks. It is good for creative writing, but even then only really because our standards for creative writing are pretty low. It doesn't write with any real creativity or flair in the writing. It can make things up and stay on topic. It is poor for anything where accuracy matters. It can't edit what it produces! Nobody writes things in one shot in reality, not even creative writing, but especially not code or technical writing. It needs to be able to do a whole suite of other things: move blocks of output around, rewrite chunks, expand chunks, condense chunks, check chunks against external sources or proper knowledge banks, compare chunks for internal consistency, and more. That is how we operate: at the level of functions or blocks of code, at the level of paragraphs and sentences and sections.

[1]: Yes, the opposite of the problem people here usually have with it, which is things being closed as duplicates. I think more duplicates should be deleted and redirected to a canonical answer, which is then a focus of improvement. Too often google searches give me barely answered or unanswered duplicates and I have to click around in the site to find the result Google clearly should have given me in the first place (better keyword matches, not closed, higher score, etc). I think StackOverflow do this intentionally so people have to click on more pages and see more ads.