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Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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God the narrative of Business Insider is gross.
The only thing making SO decline is that they have a CEO. And that CEO is trying to "compete".
Just keep being a great platform for Q&A and stop chasing profits. People prefer SO because the ansewrds are trustworthy. LLMs will always bullshit you and never be better than a platform free of AI crap.
Also, LLMs are trained on SO data. It remains a staple for coding, LLMs just reinforced that.
The decline has accelerated since the release of ChatGPT, which suggests there may be a connection, especially given ChatGPT's ability to answer many coding questions.
Stack Overflow posts, 2018-23:
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ChatGPT traffic, 2022-23:
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I agree. That being said, there is some majorly bad answers on stack overflow. 9 times out of 10 I get wrong answers, and one time I was looking for a solution in Arduino and someone answered in Javascript for some reason.