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AI didn't kill Stack Overflow

by dxs on 5/28/25, 11:52 PM with 2 comments

• by bediger4000 on 5/29/25, 12:27 AM

  This article mirrors my experience. I eventually quit asking questions and deleted my account, at least on the Unix & Linux stack exchange. The moderation got weird, allowing edits to my answers so extensive that I felt the answers were no longer mine, and I didn't want credit for them.

  The other factor to consider Is that there's only so many questions in any given topic. Common questions will get asked and answered quickly, then niche and very specific questions will eventually trickle in. Focusing on rate of questions seems wrong, somehow.

• by GianFabien on 5/29/25, 2:19 AM

  I used StackOverflow for many years. In that time I think I might have posted 3-5 questions in total. In the majority of cases, the answers were already there. The trail was blazed by those who encountered those problems before me.

  These days it is quicker to ask a LLM trained on all of the web. Of course, I need to verify the veracity of the answers, but that was true for web searches too.