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wccrawfordtoday at 10:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

If they user types "x broken" or "i do y" into Claude or ChatGPT with no context, that's absolutely no better than just sending it to you.

I'd argue that it's worse because now you have no idea what the actual original context was, just the AI's hallucination of it.


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redhaletoday at 10:43 AM

Not quite, or at least not in my experience.

The difference with AI is that the agent becomes the first level of triage. It (many times) asks the easy initial questions (did you turn it off and on again?) so I don't have to. Doesn't always work like this, but often enough.

Cthulhu_today at 10:33 AM

You'd think two decades of StackOverflow would've teached people how to ask a good question.