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NoChatGPT · 11 Jan 2025

I asked ChatGPT, which regurgitated the same ideas I found on the web, plus a few more that also didn't work

tjr on Hacker News

In the thread “AI means the end of internet search as we've known it”

Helped: Human colleague provided the insight to finish the real solution.

Got in the way: ChatGPT repeated web search results that did not work.

… I started with a web search, and found lots of proposes solutions, but nothing that worked for me. I asked ChatGPT, which regurgitated the same ideas I found on the web, plus a few more that also didn't work. Finally I tried something undocumented on a hunch, and it kind of worked, and I shared my progress with a (human) colleague, who had the insight to take what I had done and finished a real solution. …