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I knew that stack overflow must be suffering because of AI, but I find it hard to believe that questions asked per month has gone from 200k pre-chatbot to (what
by jrflo 5mo ago
I knew that stack overflow must be suffering because of AI, but I find it hard to believe that questions asked per month has gone from 200k pre-chatbot to (what appears to be) ~1k. Although, I suppose I have not gone there at all in the last 4 years...
- e28eta 5mo agoClicking through to the query for the first chart, I see the peak of ~300k in May of 2020, and it was ~3k in April of 2026 (the last complete month). I’m flabbergasted. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/1932522/2374035/questions-per-month-including-deleted https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/193252...
- NoMoreNicksLeft 5mo agoNah.... surely not. [looking at the link] Holy shitsnacks... I gotta be reading this wrong. Is it really dying? Like seriously, wtf. The Ghost of Expert Sexchange gets its revenge.
- janalsncm 5mo agoFor perspective, 300k per month is one new question every 9 seconds. 3k per month is one question every 15 minutes.
- IAmGraydon 5mo agoIt makes sense to me. There's literally no use for Stack Overflow anymore. LLMs, for all their faults, are a far better way to get answers to coding problems.
- jrflo 5mo agoIt's just rare to see something accelerate to zero like that. I feel like most dying products have a fade out over time where there still remains a niche use for them, they don't nosedive to almost nothing.