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This is a good point. With the infinite number of uses outside of programming, you wouldn’t expect to see SO interest correlate with GPT. And if it’s not negat

This is a good point. With the infinite number of uses outside of programming, you wouldn’t expect to see SO interest correlate with GPT. And if it’s not negative that’s a win. SO has accessibility problems for beginners and a meta game for more advanced users. But there is no evidence of a death spiral here. If anything… GPT could help SO by relieving the massive number of basic questions that GPT actually can answer.

TheRealPomax 3y ago
The simple questions are certainly the ones that ChatGPT is least likely to reconstruct wrong, so especially for super popular languages with huge bodies of work on the internet, you'd expect ChatGPT to act as a decent pre-filter, finally ensuring folks don't end up asking "how do I sort this list based on properties inside my objects" for the millionth time =)