Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
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Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#2Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, you used the wrong word choice here and this question has 13 other answers that have some of the same words but don't really answer your particular question so it has been deleted. Also, if this remains posted, my not-on-point answer will get less views.
There's more than one reason that forum is dead.
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#3Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, you used the wrong word choice here and this question has 13 other answers that have some of the same words but don't really answer your particular question so it has been deleted. Also, if this remains posted, my not-on-point answer will get less views. There's more than one reason that forum is dead.
The SO podcast was fun when it was running
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#4Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, you used the wrong word choice here and this question has 13 other answers that have some of the same words but don't really answer your particular question so it has been deleted. Also, if this remains posted, my not-on-point answer will get less views. There's more than one reason that forum is dead.
Everyone loves to say this when the death of Stack Overflow is discussed, but it always was that way. Strict moderation, love it or hate it, was part of the platform. And it could have kept going that way for many more years if not for LLMs 99.9% obviating the need for a coding Q&A forum.
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#5Call me crazy but sometimes I still find a better solution on StackOverflow than what Claude Code insists to do.
I'm not sure we're better off without SO in the long run.
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#6Wouldn't this be worrisome? People used StackOverflow and generated new knowledge along the way. Without such medium for discussion, how can we feed models with up-to-date quality knowledge?
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#7Call me crazy but sometimes I still find a better solution on StackOverflow than what Claude Code insists to do. I'm not sure we're better off without SO in the long run.
Much of what Claude insists you do probably came from SO.
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#8Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, you used the wrong word choice here and this question has 13 other answers that have some of the same words but don't really answer your particular question so it has been deleted. Also, if this remains posted, my not-on-point answer will get less views. There's more than one reason that forum is dead.
Everyone loves to say this when the death of Stack Overflow is discussed, but it always was that way. Strict moderation, love it or hate it, was part of the platform. And it could have kept going that way for many more years if not for LLMs 99.9% obviating the need for a coding Q&A forum.
IMO it was a combination of moderators and users
Sure, the mods were not always the best on SO. But even if you did ask a question, you had to deal with a userbase that was more pedantic and judgy than Reddit. Usually you would get an answer if it was obvious, other times you would have to defend your question against some guy whose newfound obsession was whether you had an XY Problem. Or who was personally offended you weren't using whatever the fad library of the day was (e.g. jQuery).
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#9Call me crazy but sometimes I still find a better solution on StackOverflow than what Claude Code insists to do. I'm not sure we're better off without SO in the long run.
Same here. LLMs are great at spitting out well-known solutions to problems instead of the best one. The "long tail" of solutions is usually lost due to how tokens are sampled from the LLM's probability distribution.
What I found to help a lot is to ask for e.g. 10 different solutions to a problem and then choosing one of them. Sometimes, this even leads to borderline creative solutions if there aren't 10 different ones.
Re: Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
#10Call me crazy but sometimes I still find a better solution on StackOverflow than what Claude Code insists to do. I'm not sure we're better off without SO in the long run.
Much of what Claude insists you do probably came from SO.
Or Reddit. I don't know about Claude but Gemini has given me answers that are verbatim comments from Reddit.