Hanging out in programming language IRC channels (quakenet shoutout) makes you realize pretty quickly why experts in said channels and newsgroups are such irritable grumps whenever someone asks a question that smells like homework assignment.
replyI also grew to understand the value of people digging deeper into the underlying issue, instead of just answering "how do you do X in Y". The usual reaction was "I don't want to explain to you why I want to do it like this. Just tell me how to do this!"
are they less grumpy now that chat.com will answer those questions without bothering them?
replyI'm personally getting asked more questions as people get emboldened by AI and then need it de-sloppified.
reply> Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.
replyI toyed with the idea of (on open source projects) having the human assign any PR-bot submissions to their own bot (cheapest one available will do) with the explicit instructions to cause as much rework as possible.
Sorta like a tarpit. Could be cheaper if the rejection is generated from a markov chain as that's going to be cheaper than even a cheap LLM.