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Learning a New Language

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September 6, 2025 at 12:00 am

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Site Owners SSC Guru Points: 80381 More actions · Answer 1

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Rod at work SSC-Dedicated Points: 34079 More actions · Answer 2

I've been using Markdown for maybe 5 years. I've come to really love it! It is great for doing documentation quicker than using Word. And it's everywhere on GitHub.

You make a great point that GenAI does help with learning some new things. At this point I've been using GenAI, mostly in GitHub Copilot, so not so much in learning something new. But I could use GenAI to help me with designing a Mermaid diagram in Markdown, which I am not at all good at.

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61152 More actions · Answer 3

I've been late to the AI party. Everyone I work with uses Copilot, I just starting playing with it - I don't have an opinion yet.

I love Grok, it has replaced Google and the other search engines when I need deep technical info about various topics that are hard to search for.

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Carl Landry SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4030 More actions · Answer 4

I have been playing with a Neo4j database for about 18 months now. The graph database concept and its Cypher language are just strange enough in concepts that I need help in modelizing things that would have been easy in a relational database.

However, here, a LLM is not helping me much. It's like there is not enough resources and discussions available to get a strong reliable answer. Mix the multiple Neo4j versions with small and big changes in the language structure, I kind of stopped looking for a quick answer. Either it related to an old version or its hallucinating function that do not exist or are for Python.

So, I get to do some RTFM (the Neo4j documentation is decent enough to understand what a function does) and do a lot of small tests.