I think there's a difference between Stack Overflow and/or Reddit vs. specific community led forums, or even GitHub, where questions also get answered. Just co

I think there's a difference between Stack Overflow and/or Reddit vs. specific community led forums, or even GitHub, where questions also get answered. Just considering Stack Overflow for a moment, they exist to profit from their product of consolidating questions/answers. When the LLM can answer most questions more efficiently, they've lost much of their value proposition in terms of product... and perhaps their business along with it. Many of the community forums, however, tend to not be businesses per se. Sure they'll see less traffic, but that might not matter to them. In fact, it might even be better to an extent because they often aren't monetizing their services and so LLMs carrying some weight can help reduce costs. Under those circumstances, LLMs may not be nearly so bad and they, themselves, will still have sources of training data. For example, I read the Elixir Forums for language announcements, feature discussions, occasionally to ask questions that I can't resolve with research, and even to answer some questions. I've also got LLMs fairly well integrated into my workflow. I don't see that pattern changing: neither less Elixir Forum or less reliance on the LLM. What has changed is I don't use search as much as I use to, nor do I use Stack Overflow as much. So I do expect the big aggregators to go away, those not tied to monetizing their knowledge transfer I expect to see less overall traffic, but not less meaningful and substantive interactions.