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Comment by whamlastxmas | Hacker News Reader

I’m sorry but the experience of coding with an LLM is about ten billion times better than googling and stack overflowing every single problem I come across. I’ve stack overflowed maybe like two things in the past half year and I’m so glad to not have to routinely use what is now a very broken search engine and web ecosystem.

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How did you measure and compare googling/stack overflow to coding with an LLM? How did you get to the very impressive number ten billion times better?! Can you share your methodology? How have you defined better?

I take calipers to my boss’s forehead veins and see how pissed he is routinely throughout the day

It‘s broken now. It was fine 5 years ago.

The search ecosystem is broken now because google is focused on LLMs

That's part of it. The other part is Google sacrificing product quality for excessive monetization. An example would be YouTube search - first three results are relevant, next 12 results are irrelevant "people also watched", then back to relevant results. Another example would be searching for an item to buy and getting relevant results in the images tab of google, but not the shopping tab.

It’s broken bc google has spent 20+ years promoting garbage content in a self-serving way. No one was able to compete unless they played by googles rules, and so all we have left is blog spam and regular spam

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