I see lot of people appreciating chatgpt. But I feel like it's too verbose, repeating the same things and almost useless when you need in-depth information. It looks like a high school students essay and not great for anything beyond that.
Maybe I have just given wrong queries, or the expectation is much lower these days.
is there a go-to third-party documentation for spring (eg a book) you would recommend? I find official docs difficult to navigate. (which are either very narrow tutorial or in reference format, with important details omitted).
Doesn't matter. That's the most important thing that helps to get job here. Insane competition and qualifying questions for even low paying jobs are around LC medium.
Apart from the mutable keyword, can't these be implemented as a clang diagnostic plugin? Then it can be used to enforce a stricter style guide. As another commenter pointed, mutable will be probably of limited use anyway.
I find this comment amusing because most tasks the GP mentions are so specialized that you wouldn't actually have time to learn them. If your complaint is left pad and similar libraries, that's not what GP comment is talking about.