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Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by antonvs »

embedding-shape wrote: post #57
pydry wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for a lot of stuff it just made more sense to ask on the github project's issue tracker.

- Open issue on GitHub issues: Maintainer closes issue citing "Bug reports only" - Open question on SO: Moderators close because it's too specific to a library - Ask on IRC: Get piled on for not using the right vocabulary and your IP isn't masked - Ask the LLM: Get hallucinated answer based on old API docs - Ask technical lead: Get burned for asking basic question and put on PIP - Ask my mom: She doesn't know enough…

You’re using your mom for rubber duck debugging, then. An LLM can work for that as well, usually better because it knows a lot more than your mom.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by jdlshore »

khalic wrote: post #58
fluoridation wrote: post #55

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Just because it's approximated by a bell curve doesn't make it a bell curve. There are quite obvious separate phenomena shaping the curve at different times.

> just because it's approximated by a bell curve doesn't make it a bell curve I'm going to assume this is bait...

Bell curves are probability distributions. This is a time series, so it can’t be a bell curve. It just has the same shape.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by robryan »

Some of the pre-ai decline in questions might just be that they had filled out of alot of the question space. What might be more interesting is the traffic graph as it would be possible to have a decline in questions but still have traffic rising to the existing ones.

Today I'd expect even when someone is googling and a question is relevant that most people will just read the AI overview.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by [deleted] »

fluoridation wrote: post #55
khalic wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://postimg.cc/n9nZGLmb Goodness of Fit 0.911, Kurtosis -0.849, Skewness: 0.073 It's very much a bell curve

Just because it's approximated by a bell curve doesn't make it a bell curve. There are quite obvious separate phenomena shaping the curve at different times.

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Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by embedding-shape »

antonvs wrote: post #91
embedding-shape wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Open issue on GitHub issues: Maintainer closes issue citing "Bug reports only" - Open question on SO: Moderators close because it's too specific to a library - Ask on IRC: Get piled on for not using the right vocabulary and your IP isn't masked - Ask the LLM: Get hallucinated answer based on old API docs - Ask technical lead: Get burned for asking basic question and put on PIP - Ask my mom: She doesn't know enough…

You’re using your mom for rubber duck debugging, then. An LLM can work for that as well, usually better because it knows a lot more than your mom.

It's fictional, I never actually got burned by a tech lead nor been put on PIP either, nor asked my mom to help me with programming :)

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by f311a »

wtfHN26 wrote: post #29

Looks like SO was already dying since 2017. I think other helpful places like reddit, discord, web forums etc might be what hit SO 2014-15 onwards. AI seems to have given it a blow of mercy to end the misery.

The graph shows questions, at some point they saturate, 90% of the stuff is answered. New frameworks contribute to the majority of the new questions.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by jurf »

I never understood the point if having the unfathomable churn of thousands of new questions per day. The value of SO to me was always a knowledge base with reputation mechanics, and that did not change. I still default to searching before asking AI.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by smitty1e »

faangguyindia wrote: post #73
nolok wrote: post #9

SO did that all to themselves when they decided they didn't want a community to form and that only question and answers mattered. The moment something else allowed to have a better way to get your answers, there was no reason to go there, because there was no community. I still don't understand why anyone would go with that whole "no conversation please"

Reddit is on the same track. What I've noticed is that moderators have become increasingly hostile. Reddit's AI moderation, which is designed to remove AI slop, has removed multiple top contributors I used to follow on programming, electronics, bodybuilding, welding, machining, and 3Dprinting subs. And the worst part is that Reddit site admins have no idea about this. I know a guy who reckons he can get any account b…

Can confirm for some dumb joke subs.

You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through.

Yeah, not bothering with all that.

Re: What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

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Post by inigyou »

NordStreamYacht wrote: post #90
faangguyindia wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is on the same track. What I've noticed is that moderators have become increasingly hostile. Reddit's AI moderation, which is designed to remove AI slop, has removed multiple top contributors I used to follow on programming, electronics, bodybuilding, welding, machining, and 3Dprinting subs. And the worst part is that Reddit site admins have no idea about this. I know a guy who reckons he can get any account b…

Reddit turned toxic long ago, like ten years ago and they brought in Ellen Pao to fix things, and she somehow managed to make things worse.

Ellen Pao was the glass scapegoat CEO designed to take all the flak for what the other investors and board members wanted to do.

BTW Reddit is now verifying your ID with Persona before you can open anything it thinks is NSFW.

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