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Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I tried asking deeply technical questions and got confidently incorrect responses.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I've asked moderately technical questions and was confidently given wrong information. That said, it's right far more often than copilot. I haven't used Google for quite some time

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Huh, I've found The GitHub Copilot better. You still can't trust it when it talks about APIs, though. Or anything else really - you have to keep your wits about you. I use it for suggestions on where to start with things, or for testing my assumptions, or for generating boilerplate code, but not for copying and pasting anything critical.