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Not the same thing. Copying code, even with comprehensive explanations, teaches less than writing/adjusting your own code based on advice.
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.
Of course, I originally was picking on Stack Overflow's moderation.
Which strongly discouraged trying to teach people.
Oh, I missed that.
I also missed that about StackOverflow, although I wasn't active there.
It sounds like the motto of SO was "Solve problems!" instead of "Teach people how to solve problems!".
It kinda went downhill at some point. But currently:
> And ChatGPT never closes your question without answer because it (falsely) thinks it's a duplicate of a different question from 13 years ago
ChatGPT acts exactly opposite to the SO mods.
> But it does give you a ready to copy paste answer instead of a 'teach the man how to fish' answer.
Here it acts exactly like what SO mods like.
The other comments are mostly people thinking this is about ChatGPT...