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YesChatGPT · 15 Aug 2023

Something that might take an hour of searching and reading now takes a few seconds of just asking ChatGPT

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20% of the time

In the thread “Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking about APIs and frameworks instead of searching docs or old code.

Got in the way: ChatGPT hallucinating APIs that do not exist.

… I would normally google for sample code, blog posts, tutorials, or Stack Overflow posts. Something that might take an hour of searching and reading now takes a few seconds of just asking ChatGPT. Even for things that I've done before, it's often much easier to ask ChatGPT how to do something than to look through my projects to find how I did it previously. …