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And ChatGPT never closes your question without answer because it (falsely) thinks it's a duplicate of a different question from 13 years ago

nottorp
But it does give you a ready to copy paste answer instead of a 'teach the man how to fish' answer.
nikanj OP
I'd rather have a copy paste answer than a "go fish" answer
addandsubtract
Not if you prompt it to explain the answer it gives you.
nottorp
Not the same thing. Copying code, even with comprehensive explanations, teaches less than writing/adjusting your own code based on advice.
elbear
It can also do that if you ask it. It can give you exercises that you can solve. But you have to specifically ask, because by default it just gives you code.
nottorp
Of course, I originally was picking on Stack Overflow's moderation.

Which strongly discouraged trying to teach people.

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