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AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow
- 01-_- 10mo agoHow could a company like Stack Overflow reinvent itself in order to survive the crisis it is currently experiencing with regard to AI?
- n10ty 10mo agoThey should have started thinking two years ago
- bigfatkitten 10mo agoStack Overflow was in serious trouble well before AI came along; the moderators killed it years ago. LLMs are merely accelerating its decline.
- oriettaxx 10mo agoa dead end loop, apparently, applying not just to Stack Overflow but all similar content providers: A. AI became "Intelligent" thanks to Stack Overflow B. Stack Overflow collapse due to AI C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?
- anovikov 10mo agoHuman trainers. There are tens of thousands of people doing it full time for AI companies. Their mode of work isn't much dissimilar from answering SO questions. Just in a closed manner.
- NitpickLawyer 10mo ago> C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow > Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content? This take is ~3 years old and already obsolete. For the past two years RL flavours (RLAIF, RLVR, etc) have been driving the new models.
- oriettaxx 10mo agoomg, thanks I did not know (I am obsolete, too :(
- ChrisArchitect 10mo ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345