> In this person's communication culture, they are saying "I don't know, but here's my attempt to help."
You know all those support sites for various products (Microsoft, etc) where people ask questions, and lots of folks eagerly give answers that really aren't helpful?
Throwing AI grenades generally falls into the same category.
I don't mind an AI generated answer as long as it's on point, concise, and answers my problem. If I have to read a wall of text in search of the answer, it's useless.
There's a reason I've blocked those types of "answer" sites from my Kagi search results. Kagi is awesome that way.
Which is funny, because if you hook up a current generation AI to a command line (with some amount of caution) , it will actually tend to fix your problem. See eg. Claude Code.
You know all those support sites for various products (Microsoft, etc) where people ask questions, and lots of folks eagerly give answers that really aren't helpful?
Throwing AI grenades generally falls into the same category.
I don't mind an AI generated answer as long as it's on point, concise, and answers my problem. If I have to read a wall of text in search of the answer, it's useless.
There's a reason I've blocked those types of "answer" sites from my Kagi search results. Kagi is awesome that way.