Subj : Re: Chat Bots (Was: Hub 500)
To   : Digimaus
From : Atreyu
Date : Wed Jun 24 2026 19:20:22

On 24 Jun 26  17:50:07, Digimaus said the following to Mortar M.:

D> I readily admit to using Copilot for some things that are above my skill
D> level, however, I do learn from there and move on.  It really saves time rom
D> hunting down answers on my own on the Web, especially when it comes to thing
D> BBS programming.

I'll admit it has its purpose and a good effort was put into it, but in my
experience it hasn't really helped here. I've seen AI results for tech things
which I know to be factually incorrect or misleading...  now...  "consider
the source", well if its reading from techno-morons on Reddit thats not a
good start, haha.

A good example of having to reallllllly dig deep into the Internets was with
Microsoft's own CRM product... Dynamics... and even Sharepoint. This would've
been before AI where there were at least a few misleading or wrong
instructions for administering both of them (including from M$'s own site) and
only the right answer was found on some obscure tech's personal blog.

I can't imagine what it must be like for a young guy starting off in tech and 
either fall into a lazy trap of depending on AI for all the answers... or 
actually working with others in a shop and getting real bench-experience.

Nick

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