Stapelüberlauf im freien Fall: Anzahl der Fragen um 78 Prozent gesunken
https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/137686/stack-overflow-in-freefall-78-percent-drop-in-number-of-questions/
Stapelüberlauf im freien Fall: Anzahl der Fragen um 78 Prozent gesunken
https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/137686/stack-overflow-in-freefall-78-percent-drop-in-number-of-questions/
29 Kommentare
Yea OpenAI copied everything from them. I once (long ago) tried to use it for coding and it gave me exactly the same answers to questions as I found on Stack Overflow. To the letter the same responses
I wonder if this is going to be a problem, considering that ChatGPT is basically just Reddit and StackOverflow in a trenchcoat
Also, when I search for tech questions using duckduckgo or google now, stack overflow rarely pops up on the first two pages. It’s always other resources or Google AI summary
They were too rude there lmao. Too many salty 65 y/o retired EEs
Screw it, I’m going back to newsgroups to post my programming questions.
So much punching down on Stack Overflow replies created a situation where any alternative was better than dealing with the people on that site.
„Can I ask if any-“
„REPEAT QUESTION USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION NEXT TIME DUMBASS“
„Why does nobody ask questions on our platform anymore?“
i learned never to ask questions when i was doing my undergrad in cs before ai was even their biggest problem. just read already posted questions and documentation. toxic ass culture.
Not hard to understand why. Besides the advent of Generative AI, I swear that somebody’s helpfulness was inversely proportional to how rude they were. Biggest dickheads on that site never answered any questions but seemed to dominate every post. They eventually outnumbered the decent helpful people.
It’s as hostile as asking things on some sub-reddits. You’re just told to use the broken search or given bad advice.
It’s old JS meme, three people telling you to use Jquery and one person, downvoted, giving an actual answer to the question.
Asked a question once…. and learned my lesson. Only helpful to look for solutions, not to ask for them.
Stack overflow is the equivalent to asking reddit, but you might get good answers thrown into being berated.
Well yeah your site was the quickest way to be insulted after you left high school. It was the literal opposite of a helpful experience
AI ate stack overflow and all the old questions are in the model. But what about new questions? They will never come, and AI’s will not have good answers for them. Dead internet.
I asked a question there once and got downvoted to hell. Never again xd
Recently, I was searching for something and hit SO. I see the answer is outdated so I posted a new answer (basically something wasn’t possible before but it is now). Within 30 min, my answer is down voted. No comments. No justification. Just straight to -1. I hate SO.
They sold themselves out for a quick buck to Open AI in May 2024 and now they are reaping the rewards.
That’s the thing with most corporate culture, they can’t see further than their own noses.
While this is very, very sad, and I consider SO essential for programming, I can’t feel much empathy to it: frequently when asking for questions, I was often replied in a superior manner, making me feel dumb or questioning my posts as if it was not a question to have. Not everyone was like that of course, many people were super nice, but when I think about SO I always get this bitter feeling.
Good riddance
Cause all the answers have been ingested into AI and it provides a much friendlier answer.
What happens to AI once the sources it’s trained on dry up?
Well it’s hard to ask new questions and the site seems to be getting worse, also every ai agent has copied all the data from already existing questions and answers. So I just now ask copilot at work questions I would previously google with the + stack overflow tag.
Given how often I still use it to look up answers to previously answered questions/Google error messages, I worry about the future.
Fk that site, full of pretentious pricks lmao
Stack Overflow was a honeypot designed to pull in novices for the site’s trolls to mercilessly ridicule.
Why would I wait 3 hours for a cocky, overconfident, and ultimately wrong answer on SO when Codex can do it in 50 seconds? (/s but not _entirely_)
Yeah, every time I asked a question on Stack Overflow I had to spend an extra hour obsessively proofreading and rewording it just to lower the odds of getting jumped. They let the culture become toxic and the moment a reasonable alternative appeared people immediately swapped.
Stack overflow ruined itself by allowing the older members to start treating it like their fiefdom. Basically allowing them to be condescending and closing questions as duplicate to a question whose answer is no longer possible.
It’s sad to see, but social self management always devoles to this.
StackOverflow is the worst site on the Internet for asking technical questions, and it was meticulously designed to be just that.