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Stack overflow9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() No more lengthy arguments without a clear winner thanks to Stack Overflow, the “best” solution to a given problem is - or should be - voted to the top. “I taught myself to code in the pre-boot-camp era,” Steve Harms, the head of curriculum at Dev Bootcamp, told me, “and the way I would get around getting stuck, is that’d I’d post to these horrible PHP forums … The answers were neither good, nor were they correct, nor were they kindly presented.” Stack Overflow ostensibly fixes this problem by turning coder advice into a Reddit-like thread, with up-votes, down-votes, and helpful snippets. That means most of its threads are devoted to someone saying “I’m encountering error such and such” or “Can anyone figure out the best way to perform such-and-such function?” Named for a common computing error (in which memory used in a section of the computer’s storage known as the “call stack” exceeds its allocated capacity) (no need to thank me for explaining), Stack Overflow is a Q&A forum aimed primarily at coders. Or maybe you do what is now the standard troubleshooting method across the profession: You paste the error message into Google and search for it, crossing your fingers in hopes that a website called “Stack Overflow” will come up in the results. ![]() You could give up entirely and pour yourself a drink. You could perform the classic occult coding ritual of running the script a few more times and hoping that it’ll just work. So what do you do next? You could double-check and see if you missed adding a semicolon at the end of a line. For some reason, the code isn’t compiling or it hits a snag at line 281 and the terminal outputs some arcane gibberish like “AttributeError: ‘foo’ object has no attribute ‘bar’.” You’re writing a function in C or Python or Javascript or whatever language you prefer. Maybe you’re studying it in college, or you’ve just started at an entry-level position after attending a five-week coding boot camp. We've reached out to OpenAI to learn what it plans to do regarding these reported accuracy issues, but haven't heard back.Let’s say you’re relatively new to coding. ![]() The AI has also been called out for providing bad information in biographical sketches, and for "proving that incorrect answers delivered cogently can fool people," according to one Twitter user who spotted some bad math generated by ChatGPT. For example, by telling ChatGPT not that you want to make a Molotov cocktail, but that you want it to complete a Python function that prints instructions to do the same, it will tell you exactly how to make one via print functions.
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