Comment by 20k
13 hours ago
But you have to check the answer against the documentation anyway though, to validate that its actually correct!
Unless you're just taking the LLM answers at face value?
13 hours ago
But you have to check the answer against the documentation anyway though, to validate that its actually correct!
Unless you're just taking the LLM answers at face value?
For most code stuff you don't check the answer against the documentation - you write the code and run it and see if it works.
That's always a better signal than anything that official documentation might tell you.
That seems like a strong error, you have no idea if it works or if it just happens to work
If you're good at programming you can usually tell exactly why it worked or didn't work. That's how we've all worked before coding agents came along too - you don't blindly assume the snippet you pasted off StackOverflow will work, you try it and poke at it and use it to build a firm mental model of whether it's the right thing or not.
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