Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit’s mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow’s failure to address it’s promises and provide moderation tools

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    1 year ago

    Me: Good for them, that’s great hope they get want they want.

    Me, to myself, in bed at night: Oh god how will I code

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      1 year ago

      At least we have readily available AI tools to help

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        1 year ago

        Trained on old stack overflow answers, so newer things could be a problem.

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          The new Copilot for Docs beta aims to solve that problem by providing the AI context about the libraries you’re using, new or old. It’ll have all the information from the documentation, so it will know all the functions, parameters, outputs, etc.