Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
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Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
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#2The decline is not surprising. I am sure AI is replacing Stackoverflow for a lot of people. And my experience with asking questions was pretty bad. I asked a few very specific questions about some deep detail in Windows and every time I got only some smug comments about my stupid question or the question got rejected outright. That while a ton of beginner questions were approved. Definitely not a very inviting club. I found i got better responses on Reddit.
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#3it died
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#4Do I read that correctly — it is close to zero today?!
I used to think SO culture was killing it but it really may have been AI after all.
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#5Approaching 0 is wild
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#6Probably similar for google. My first line of search is always chatgpt
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#7Everything we have done and said on the internet since its birth has just been to train the future AI.
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#8Now that StackOverflow has been killed (in part) by LLMs, how will we train future models? Will public GitHub repos be enough?
Precise troubleshooting data is getting rare, GitHub issues are the last place where it lives nowadays.
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#9The result is not surprising! Many people are now turning to LLMs with their questions instead. This explains the decline in the number of questions asked.
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#10Wow. I was expecting a decline but not to that extent.