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That's not universal. For instance, last week I got help writing a bash script. But I hope they're helping lots of you in lots of ways.

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[โ€“] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, been dealing with that a bunch lately too, I've started pushing them towards the documentation directly (though to be fair, sometimes that's ass or nearly nonexistent) with some success.

[โ€“] needanke@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

Tbh I often find chatbots good for edgecases which are not well-documented (or not documented at all) but hard too google because one of the (or a subset of the) keywords is just flooded with (ireelevant/) unrelated garbage.