I find it incredible you find a LLM slower and less full of useless chitchat about a question than stack overflow.

I don’t even open SO anymore; if it has a direct answer to your question, the LLM almost certainly does too; and asking new questions on SO is basically impossible.

If you manage to survive the gauntlet of “too specific, already answered, not general interest, arbitrary moderator activity”, the chances of getting an answer that answers your question can take forever; most likely you’ll get a stupid answer that doesn’t answer it, upvoted by idiots who don’t understand that it not an answer the the actual question, and, ultimately, because it “already has an answer”, ignored, never to receive an answer.

Maybe one day, a passing savant will answer in a comment.

…and yet, you find it faster and more reliable?

You, and I, have had different experiences on stack overflow in the last two years.

> For real work it isn't as useful.

To you.