for a lot of stuff it just made more sense to ask on the github project's issue tracker.

- Open issue on GitHub issues: Maintainer closes issue citing "Bug reports only"

- Open question on SO: Moderators close because it's too specific to a library

- Ask on IRC: Get piled on for not using the right vocabulary and your IP isn't masked

- Ask the LLM: Get hallucinated answer based on old API docs

- Ask technical lead: Get burned for asking basic question and put on PIP

- Ask my mom: She doesn't know enough computer to know the answer, but in explaining the problem to her, I finally figured out what I got wrong

jeanlucas 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Usually #1 actually works, most cases, and missing discord, several healthy communities on Discord nowadays

	▲	alloyed 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yep! 90% of the time if i have a question about a project there's a discussions tab that can take my question with a nearly identical interface to stack overflow's, and I can be reasonably sure there will be contributors or maintainers who will see it. Not much point to stack overflow as a second, silo'd site in that world

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antonvs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You’re using your mom for rubber duck debugging, then. An LLM can work for that as well, usually better because it knows a lot more than your mom.

It's fictional, I never actually got burned by a tech lead nor been put on PIP either, nor asked my mom to help me with programming :)

	▲	antonvs 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's not really relevant, the point is LLMs are actually pretty good for the scenario you described.