beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoReddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86%promptwatch.comexternal-linkmessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squarevalkyre09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 days agoThe guys on LTT mentioned this during their Linux challenge, but I’ve found it to be true - Scouring forums for answers to obscure errors used to take hours. Now I just throw it at Gemini, troubleshoot in real time and find the fix. I’ve even started asking it to give me a PDF of the steps we took and filing them away for future me.
minus-squareAceBonobo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI like to ask it for a beautiful html page instead of a pdf. PDFs are a pain later on.
minus-squarevalkyre09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoTonight I spent the time spinning up a silverbullet instance and converting the PDFs to .md files. You’re right, PDFs aren’t searchable and will be a pain as the database grows. Thanks for sharing :)
The guys on LTT mentioned this during their Linux challenge, but I’ve found it to be true -
Scouring forums for answers to obscure errors used to take hours. Now I just throw it at Gemini, troubleshoot in real time and find the fix.
I’ve even started asking it to give me a PDF of the steps we took and filing them away for future me.
I like to ask it for a beautiful html page instead of a pdf. PDFs are a pain later on.
Tonight I spent the time spinning up a silverbullet instance and converting the PDFs to .md files. You’re right, PDFs aren’t searchable and will be a pain as the database grows.
Thanks for sharing :)