🐭it's time to reveal so nobody can ever hold it over us: we used AI once, before it was widely known how bad it was, when we were trying to learn C# and getting nowhere with googling, to be like "hey I want to do this in C# what is it called" and looking through the sea of shit to find the answer
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@roxy I'm pretty sure search engines are intentionally omitting the first few actually-relevant results so they can have the only way to access them be through their genAI slop offering
@ben 🐭 it was so long ago that the AI summary thing wasn't even a thing yet
@roxy like I can search for a firefox error message on 
and it'll give me completely irrelevant useless websites
and then I click the "use duck ai" button and it immediately responds with a link to the correct mozilla developer network wiki article
🐭the experience was very much just like "well this thing can't be as wrong as everyone says" and then it was as wrong as they said lmao but being experienced enough in code meant we were able to look through the word slurry and see the functionality we were looking for. so yea, fancy search is all