Comment by abound
3 months ago
In defense of OpenAI in this particular situation, GPT 5 can be incredibly jargon-y at times, making it much worse of a learning tool than other LLMs. Here's some response snippets from me asking a question about dual-stack networking:
> Get an IPv6 allocation from your RIR and IPv6 transit/peering. Run IPv6 BGP with upstreams and in your core (OSPFv3/IS-IS + iBGP).
> Enable IPv6 on your access/BNG/BRAS/CMTS and aggregation. Support PPPoE or IPoE for IPv6 just like IPv4.
> Security and ops: permit ICMPv6, implement BCP38/uRPF, RA/DHCPv6 Guard on access ports, filter IPv6 bogons, update monitoring/flow logs for IPv6.
Speaking like a networking pro makes sense if you're talking to another pro, but it wasn't offering any explanations with this stuff, just diving deep right away. Other LLMs conveyed the same info in a more digestible way.
Actually it just demonstrates why ipv6 adoption has failed :)
No one is going to do that for fun and there is no easy path for home networks.
Asking it to clarify costs nothing and you end up getting up to speed with the language of the domain; everyone wins.
> Asking it to clarify costs nothing
It costs the most important thing I got
Deepening your knowledge isn't worth two minutes to you?
Different strokes, that's fair, but geez.
As does avoiding jargon at the cost of clarity, or defining every term for people who already know it.
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Why are you even doing this if you don’t want to learn? And if you can’t be bothered to ask questions, are you even serious about learning?
I always wonder how useful such explanations could be. If you don’t know (or can’t guess) what ICMPv6 is (and how much would knowing it stands for “Internet Control Message Protocol version 6” help?), perhaps you asked the wrong question or, yes, you’re dangerously out of your depth and shouldn’t be trying to implement a networking stack without doing some more research.