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I don't answer for SO points but dropping below a certain threshold removes features.
I'm done with the place.
It will be used to answer the harder questions that AI models can't answer.
Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions got closed as "duplicate" even when they were not.
You can find questions such as "My DNS isn't working", with answers like "Have you tried disabling your firewall?" and it's feels like the blind leading the blind, like PHP developers fixing installations via "chmod 777".
LLMs are terrible, but stackoverflow is definitely worse.
As for Stack Overflow, the number of questions has decreased 25-fold (!) since 2018. A single person could now answer all new questions if they had nothing else to do.
I'm a Stack Overflow elected moderator (one of these users: https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=moderators ) First, a disclaimer: I do not speak for other elected moderators, nor for Stack Exchange Inc. My views are my own. Site traffic has been declining for a long time and that's not a mystery. Empirically, the rise of Large Language Models has sped up the decline or at least did not reverse the trend. This is both…
But they are missing that opportunity because such questions typically get no answer and no votes (or sometimes even downvoted as some users tend to downvote questions they don't understand), which caused them to be automatically deleted later. And some of these questions will be closed e.g. as too niche (complex debugging problems). I've posted over 7000 questions across Stack Exchange and that's my experience.
> quick and confident-sounding answers to whatever problem you throw at them.
Just like an answer on Stack Overflow.
I deleted my account, and stopped visiting it at least five years ago. Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions got closed as "duplicate" even when they were not. You can find questions such as "My DNS isn't working", with answers like "Have you tried disabling your firewall?" and it's feels like the blind leading the blind, like…
Exactly. Some stackoverflow users keep complaining about AI slop but they fail to realize that human slop is much more rampant.
It will be used to answer the harder questions that AI models can't answer.