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If that's your base criteria, why not remove humans from the equation entirely and just turn Stack Overflow into purely AI driven? It doesn't matter if the answ
by fzeroracer 3y ago
If that's your base criteria, why not remove humans from the equation entirely and just turn Stack Overflow into purely AI driven? It doesn't matter if the answer is correct, only the speed and formatting of the answer.
- DougBTX 3y agoThat’s a more realistic option than you’d think. What is the point of a software Q&A site anyway, why not just read the docs? In my experience, Q&A is useful because it summarises and consolidates disparate information into a concise response to a prompt (sorry, I mean to a Question!) which is... exactly what a chat AI does. Isn’t chat AI an existential threat to SO, even if AI is banned there? Certainly I find chat AI better in many cases, and if I don’t like the answers, just going to the docs is the next step, not a generic Google search with SO in the SERP.
- never_inline 3y ago> In my experience, Q&A is useful because it summarises and consolidates disparate information into a concise response to a prompt (sorry, I mean to a Question!) which is... exactly what a chat AI does There is knowledge you will never find in documentation. 50% of places where SO has been helpful to me are not "consolidating documentation". They are solutions to obscure bugs, Useful APIs which are not documented with any example, and low-level logic / high-level design solutions.