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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Make no mistake. LLMs aren’t killing stackoverflow. LLMs just arrived to finish it off. The stuff that was killing it are the regular posters there, and their passive aggressive bullshit

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Question closed as off-topic.

[–] Quibblekrust 5 points 3 days ago

Question closed as off-topic.

Removed as duplicate of #264826376: "Question closed as duplicate."

Sometimes my jokes need explaining...I'm pointing out that questions on SO too often get closed as duplicates of adjacent (but distinctly different) questions, and I did so in the most confusing, recursive way possible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Nothing passive about them it was just regular aggressive. Made my programming coursework so much worse. Indian guys on YouTube however, now those guys were helpful!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup. I once decided to spend an afternoon answering questions on a framework I was expert in, as a kind of profile-building exercise to help with job hunting, and after around the third smug self-satisfied comment picking me up on some piece of irrelevant bullshit I deleted my account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I hate how cathartic it is to watch that mountain of bullies burn to the ground 😌

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I never asked a question, despite using it daily. Too afraid of being berated 😅