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Stackoverflow is and will be fine, what are you basing this panic on?
by golol 2y ago
Stackoverflow is and will be fine, what are you basing this panic on?
- tempest_ 2y agoMany many people use Copilot / ChatGPT in place of stack overflow for all the obvious reasons.
- golol 2y agoYes and that either works perfectly and Stackoverflow is not needed, or it doesn’t work and we keep using Stackoverflow. In reality it is of course a mix of the two. My point is, we’re not just going to sit around and twiddle our thumbs if there is a dramatic drop in the accessibility of Q&A. We’ll do something! Just like when Stackoverflow was created.
- rrwo 2y agoStack Overflow has been less useful for several years before OpenAI. I find for web technologies it's less useful because the technologies keep change, and what was a good answer in 2010 is not now. To answer questions I find it more useful to consult a primary source, such as the documentation on a some software's website, or a forum dedicated to that software. On SO I often get no replies, or unhelpful and often toxic comments along the lines of "Technology X is bad, use Y instead". Or I often get people who answer the question as if they show applying for a job at Google. No, I just need help with some software to process a few thousand rows and send a summary once a month by email. I'm not trying to process petabytes of data with a response time of <1ms.