One factor I haven't seen mentioned is the catastrophic decline in quality of Google search. That started pre-llm and now the site is almost unusable to search web. You can access something you know exists and you know where it exists, but to actually search..?

Most SO users are passive readers who land there using search, but these readers are also the feed of new active users. Cut off the influx, and the existing ones will be in decline (the moderation just accelerates it).

Do you mean wire and tool manufacturers? Electrician is mostly a user. Or to avoid flawed analogies - should books on Windows, Office, ... be only limited to a small subset of Microsoft employees? I'd assume the book is for users, what does it matter if the author contributed to the project?

And that's still ignoring that evangelism is also a valuable contribution.

So are you just verifying/factchecking everything it tells you? How is that a good learning experience? And if you don't, you are learning made up stuff, so not great either.

It's a good tool to learn stuff, I'm not trying to argue that, but one has to be fully aware of its shortcomings and put in extra work. With actual tutorials or books you have at least some level of trust.

I mean, I have to verify stuff in human-written tutorials too. Humans are wrong all the time.

A lot of it is just, are its explanations consistent? Does the code produce the expected result?

Like, if you're learning ray-tracing and writing code as you go, either it works or it doesn't. If the LLM is giving you wrong information, you're going to figure that out really fast.

In practice, it's just not really an issue. It's the same way I find mistakes in textbooks -- something doesn't quite add up, you look it up elsewhere, and discover the book has a typo or error.

Like, when I learn with an LLM, I'm not blindly memorizing isolated facts it gives me. I'm working through an area, often with concrete examples, pushing back on what seems confusing, until getting to a state where things make sense. Errors tend to reveal themselves very quickly.

Always had. From blocking features by UA to ads worth billions of dollars (only little of which they had to actually pay).

So does that also solve the many issues

I've never worked on a super big project, so when it comes to python dependancies the issue I always had is some C/C++ packages trying to build locally and fsiling. While this is mostly a problem on windows I've encountered it on mac as well. I assume uv doesn't have a way to solve this?

And the important lesson from that the k/v-like aspect of it. That the "schema" is horizontal (is that a thing?) and not column-based. But I actually only read it on their blog IIRC and never even got the full details - that there's still a third ID column. Thanks for the link.

> What did you do once you arrived in Budapest?

You will be perfectly fine staying in Budapest with just English; you can learn hello, please, and thank you to be polite. This goes for most bigger European cities, outside of France I guess.

Even France you can survive with English, just try some French and ask “how do you say” a number of times.

French people are quite friendly if you don’t exhibit all the worst symptoms of stereotypical tourists.

If you travel to Budapest from Berlin you buy the ticket from DB and the crew changes as follows: German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian. None of the first three crews would speak Hungarian. Luckily all will be able to communicate in English.

(regular announcements oftentimes won't be in Hungarian until you are in Hungary, that depends on the train origin, but I would only expect local+English)

Honestly, it should be an obligation. DB should make it one for themselves. DB carries millions of people a year that do not speak the language. Important information like route changes should be available to them. English just happens to be the most likely language to be understood at least enough to ask staff/other passengers as to what is going on.

I'm a native English speaker. It is not their obligation to provide everything in English. It is arrogant for someone like me to presume it should be.

How many X servers named Pheonix are there? Surely it doesn't matter if there are frameworks and libraries of the same name in other areas. It's inevitable to have collisions like this.