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It’s good for reference but not for discovery. If I already know the general concept (let’s say Template Literal Types) I can get good info on it, but if I start with a question like ‘Is there a way to make sure this string literal starts with “id_”?’ then I find it very hard to know.

Random but this is what I’m finding GPT-4 best at: translating random questions into domain terminology + providing examples.



maybe this is just an issue with me but I've not found any way to search the docs. the only thing Google seems to index is the release notes, and going backwards from the release notes to guess the appropriate section of the docs that will explain that concept is really annoying.


I can’t even find basic type definitions for standard JS functions. I have to type the function in my IDE and then open the type definition from there.

So it works, I guess, but that’s not really how I want to work.




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