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It makes sense from a business perspective (they have been losing traffic to chatGPT), but unfortunately it may also mean the end of Stack Overflow as we know i
by selcuka 3y ago
It makes sense from a business perspective (they have been losing traffic to chatGPT), but unfortunately it may also mean the end of Stack Overflow as we know it. The whole value of SO was to be able to connect with subject experts in a reasonably easy and quick way.
Computer generated answers compiled from existing resources may work for simple questions, but not for things that require specific knowledge and experience.
- busterarm 3y agoI have not found a reasonably good answer to a question in at least 5 years. Seems more like 10. I still get a better hit rate from mailing lists and github issues.
- starball-tgz 3y agothat's not the only value. There's a lot more. Emphasizing on "no-noise" is a big one. Stack Overflow was created to solve the problem of having to dig through long forum threads to get answers, or getting blocked by paywalls. There's also value in searchability and showing up in search engines. Running LLMs like ChatGPT is not cheap in a lot of ways.
- culebron21 3y agoI'd doubt SO is the only go-to platform nowadays for modern matters. In 2009-2018 it was the go-to place for all modern technologies. But since then 1) moderation got more severe, so you can't ask a question like "what packages are there for X?" (even though there are many remaining from the early 2010s) 2) many questions similar to older ones but different in fine details, get closed quickly. I see new tech go to their own forums based on Discourse. So, since 2020, I'd still come to SO for answers already available, but for a place to make new questions -- I'd look elsewhere.