RIP #stackoverflow
Pure irony. LLMs kill stack overflow and in turn lose a primary source of training data
About 12 years ago, I brought my at that time infant son, across country to meet my grandmother. My grandmother was blind. Not born blind, but probably 100% blind for several years at that point. The morning of our arrival - She woke up with her vision. Not completely restored, but she could see shapes. What a Miracle! She had no idea we were coming to visit, it was a surprise. When I arrived, there she was sitting at the kitchen table holding hands with her pastor praying. I walked through the door with my baby boy, and she got to actually see her grand daughter and great grandson. A few days later, she lost her sight again. It never returned. So, sometimes when we have been blind and using that walking stick, our vision can come back.. But we better hold on to that stick, because the vision may not be what it was before, and we may lose it again. Enjoy the moment though and be grateful for the opportunity to see!
It’s where we got answers. But don’t go there for technical questions anymore. It’s a different era. AI killed it.
ChatGPT: Instant answers. Stack Overflow: Instant Insults.
rest in peace I used to spend hours of my day on this site
Hard to disagree with this. Before AI, Stack Overflow was truly the backbone of my daily workflow. Regardless of the occasionally tough love in the comments, it was the ultimate lifeline that kept us moving. The way I coded was basically: 'search SO, copy, pray, repeat' 😂. It really shaped a generation of developers.
Their income is now is https://stackoverflow.co/internal/ They reinvent themselves, I think they made a move nobody saw coming
I won’t be surprised at all if traditional hand coding becomes a UNESCO heritage project in twenty years time
Stackoverflow was a staple, but the mods own arrogance was also a contributing factor. Post Covid I hated posting a question there just from the obnoxious crowd there and had been using it less and less. So, once a tool came along that gave anywhere near as good information people abandoned the toxic environment there in a hurry.