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> I’m not exaggerating. And neither is anyone else. > Stack Overflow, the site that defined a generation of software development, received 3,710 questions last
by grayhatter 9mo ago
> I’m not exaggerating. And neither is anyone else.
> Stack Overflow, the site that defined a generation of software development, received 3,710 questions last month. That’s barely above the 3,749 it got in its first month of existence. The entire knowledge-sharing infrastructure we built our careers on is collapsing because people don’t need to ask anymore.
"Because people don't need to ask anymore."?!
Yeah, I wouldn't call it exaggerating, I think I would call it a fundamental misunderstanding.
I wanted to comment on the code examples he shared. But they're they're all closed source. Which is a decision given the premise of the whole article, err I mean ad, that implementations are free these days.
- miroljub 9mo agoPeople still need to ask, and they still keep asking. It's just they are asking there where they expect they'll reach a better answer faster than on SO.
- davekiss 9mo agoThanks for your comprehension
- wiseowise 9mo agoDude decided to completely ignore how hostile SO became in the last years, because obviously it is AI and not "DUPLICATE", "RTFM", -100 downvotes for asking "simple" question, questions unanswered for decades, etc.
- raincole 9mo agoThe funniest part is that from the image itself you can clearly, unambiguously see that the downfall started between 2020~2022. ChatGPT was launched in Nov 2022. So the downfall of SO couldn't be caused by AI, at least not initially. But the blog post author is so biased that they simply ignored the image they posted themselves.