searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
Use ai
I’ve found AI to be absolute dog shit for any technical issues I’ve tried using it to find answers for. Every time I’ve wasted 10-15 minutes reading and trying to verify it’s nonsense before I give up and just find answers the old fashioned way (or wing it and hope for the best if I can’t). It’s also crap at finding products, which you would think would be an easy one.
What’s an example of a technical issue?
I use it more to rubber duck and also scaffold or search Google and it self to link me to things that I then can read. Other times if I’m reading something and I don’t understand I’ll again feed it into it and then talk it through with it. It’s so much faster than trying to do it with search engines now
A recent one was trying to fix the overscan on a retropie I was trying to get working on my TV. Nothing it told me worked and it changed answers or provided shit that it hallucinated several times.
There was also the time where I was trying to alter a program for a macropad I have that it was just spitting out nonsense.
Ah bummer. I find things wrong here and there. My favorite is when you don’t do anything and ask if it’s sure. Sometimes without any new input it’ll say “you’re right I’m totally wrong the answer is…”
I just see it as a tool. I don’t have much luck searching through endless forums or documents for hours just to find the section i need is worthwhile. I can at get to a direct answer and if it’s wrong I troubleshoot like I do anyways.
You’re going to get downvoted and so am I for agreeing with you because that’s the nature of the internet currently.
I often have a hard time figuring out how to search for what I want. I’ve found I can actually work through some things with ai easier than I can with a search engine and quicker than waiting for the right human to help me.
Absolutely same experience.
This is a bit of a tangent, but I find I’m at odds with a lot of things lately. I’m just miserable lol. One example is I love to learn new things. As an example I learn coding. Early on there’s great resources. Very clear videos of new content creators who have answers. Over the years everybody wants to code. Now the content creators explode. The content slowly over time becomes less useful. Now when I search I have millions of videos on the same thing because they’re all chasing the one video that week whose metrics were the highest. Soon searching for educational videos is super difficult. It’s a broken system.
AI is like that early day now so it’s still fun to use and gets right to the heart of the problem I’m trying to solve and it’s interactive. That’s how I learn. I have a conversation. I’m sorry it’s killing the world. But I’m honestly done being a leftist hero I thought I’d be when I was younger. I’m so tired and I just want to learn stuff and I’m tired of every new thing that comes out being some evil according to the latest lefty gripe.
Look at bitcoin. It fucking sucked. Still sucks. But if any of us invested in it years ago we’d be retired. But we were all here telling each other to stay away. What did that get any of us? Pride? Digital acceptance that we all complied with the latest hater trend? We’re still poor and crypto still exists. It was just an eye opener to me that people online are holding each other back. Id rather use the tools I have to better my position. If it works then it works and I’m not going to let the faceless amorphous body of haters hold me back.
A lot of talk online is just that. All talk. Most of the people (when it’s actually people and not bots) behind these keyboards aren’t doing anything meaningful to change their or others positions in life.