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People don't post where they aren't visiting. They're not visiting Stack Overflow for well-read material (the popular languages) because perplexity.ai, ChatGPT
by Terretta 2y ago
People don't post where they aren't visiting.
They're not visiting Stack Overflow for well-read material (the popular languages) because perplexity.ai, ChatGPT, Claude, etc., not only answer questions better than reading pages of StackOverflow, but will cut and paste the (right or wrong) answer for you faster.
If you're not on StackOverflow while asking questions, you aren't answering things there either. Nothing else is needed to explain their observations.
Of course, this means that to compete, StackOverflow and other Q&A forums must bring the answering usability (integrating answers into one's flow) to the top.
- zahlman 2y agoCompeting with AI is an explicit non-goal of the Stack Overflow community, as well as the one other Q&A forum I use (Codidact). AI won't "answer questions better". It will cut out the middleman of parsing your question and matching it up with words in the shape of an answer. It will also frequently hallucinate, and essentially never sanity-check what you're trying to do. But the main thing giving it a speed/convenience advantage over Q&A forums is that it doesn't give a damn about whether your question, and its answer, could help someone else (by being discoverable with a search engine and understood by that other person as being the same question, and being focused on a single issue). Aside from not being designed to care, it wouldn't benefit: it can just re-generate the same answer content for the next person who asks, in a different low-quality way. Unlike a human expert, AI will never tire of that task.
- famouswaffles 2y agoIt definitely answers certain questions better and languages, topics these models are less capable at are hit less. The denial at this point doesn't make any sense.