Your boss no longers accepts this idle excuse

raddevus

Just a few months ago, you could easily go to your boss and say, "Oh, StackOverflow is down so I can't move forward on my project." :rolleyes: However, that excuse is no longer valid. Here's the new meme, I just minted[^] to explain it. :-D The Dev game has changed to a whole new level.

11917640 Member

So, AI is actually StackOverflow backup device. Good to know. Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.

raddevus

11917640 Member wrote:

Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.

Exactly! I've actually taken 20 minutes (or longer) to write up a question on electronics.stackexchange (one of the most arrogant forums of stackexchange) only to have the entire post deleted where I couldn't even find the post again. I've found Copilot to be very nice, even when I ask stupid questions. :rolleyes:

dandy72

How junior does one have to be for those sorts of excuses to remain acceptable? Not aimed at you specifically; I'm familiar enough with your contributions to CP to know you deserve all the kudos you can get. I'm thinking specifically of those who aren't old enough to have ever coded without the ability to google everything.

dandy72

raddevus wrote:

I've found Copilot to be very nice, even when I ask stupid questions

...and I've found I stop being nice to Copilot when it starts giving stupid answers. That generally happens when I reply along the lines of "this won't work, because of A, B, C", and it responds with "try this instead" and then proceeds to repeat the exact same thing that lead me to my initial response. And then it fails to acknowledge even that, and that's as far as it'll go.

raddevus

Yeah, very true. AI seems to get an idea in it's "head" and can't get it out. :laugh:

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

“Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”

:laugh:

pkfox

I've never worked under those conditions - I was given a task and I completed it - I also never had a boss - I work with people, not for them

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

raddevus

pkfox wrote:

I work with people, not for them

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dandy72

I kinda have to agree here. If you were hired, and can get fired, you're working for whoever signs your paycheck, not with.

Sander Rossel

11917640 Member wrote:

Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.

Which proves it's nowhere near human intelligence yet ;p

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pkfox

It may be different in the US

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

pkfox

Yes, have done for the last 40 years

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

dandy72

Shouldn't your parents be retired by now? :-p

pkfox

What has this got to do with my parents ( who are both dead ) ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

DerekT P

Succinctly put. I switched for working "for" someone to "with" someone when I went freelance. I felt far more in partnership with my clients, and more invested in their businesses, than I ever did as an employee. I got the feeling though that my approach was not what most were used to when working with freelancers... Also at no point in my career would I ever have even hinted that I'd used SO or any online equivalent. If I didn't know how to do something (which happened quite often) I'd acknowledge it, then use the manuals to find the answer. (And if it was something that my client could reasonably have expected me to know, I wouldn't charge for that time, either. Employers expect to pay for training, clients don't.)

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pkfox

Pretty much mirrors my approach Derek - I was only ever directly employed by a software house once - I lasted a month and hated it - the rest of my time I was freelance using my limited company as a a payment vehicle.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

dandy72

It was a bad joke. The idea was that if you've been working "with" people rather than "for" people for 40 years is that, all along, your employer must've been mom and dad.