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Eh I felt that way about the internet in 2010s. Seemed like virtually any question could be answered by a google query. People were making jokes that a programm
by jordanb 1y ago
Eh I felt that way about the internet in 2010s. Seemed like virtually any question could be answered by a google query. People were making jokes that a programmer's job mostly consisted of looking things up on stack overflow. But then google started sucking and SO turned into another expertsexchange (which was itself good in the 2000s).
So far from what I've experienced AI coding agents automate away the looking things up on SO part (mostly by violating OSS licenses on Github). But that part is only bad because the existing tools for doing that were intentionally enshitified.
- tasty_freeze 1y ago> expertsexchange My vote for the unintentionally funniest company name. I wonder if they were aware when the landed on it, or if they were so deep in the process that it was too late to change course when they realized what they had done.
- Izkata 1y agoThey're still around, long ago they bought the "experts-exchange" domain name and redirected the original, then at some point after that they abandoned the original entirely.
- sothatsit 1y agoI wonder whether we will avoid some enshittification of AI because people are willing to pay for it. It doesn't all have to run off ads (although I'm sure all the free tiers will contain ads eventually).