It sounds like he’s suggesting that AI will open up a huge new pool of amateur developers, and those developers will need a community to turn to to know how to

It sounds like he’s suggesting that AI will open up a huge new pool of amateur developers, and those developers will need a community to turn to to know how to leverage AI. But that kinda ignores the impact that AI will have on the concept of the SO community, or whether they’ll even be a need for it. I honestly think his take is a misread of what kind of “community” SO has. My use of SO has always been 99% functional and borderline mercenary. I’m not getting to know anyone, I’m not building relationships, I just need a question answered. There’s nothing sticky about this community other than it being a good place to get those questions answered. As soon as AI can do that, I’ll never return to that “community”, and I’ll miss it as much as I miss Yahoo Answers.