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    „Die Qualität nimmt nach der Ankunft der KI exponentiell ab“: Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Experten und Mitwirkende Online-Communities inmitten eines stillen „Wissens-Resets“ verlassen

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the article 

      Research from the University of Auckland on Stack Overflow’s demise over the last few years points to an increasingly worrying trend in the software community: the best, or highest-skill, contributors are leaving in droves.

      AI, which arguably bridges the gap between most entry-level and mid-range coders and some of the best in the business, might actually be accelerating the latter’s exit from online communities, as they feel their efforts are no longer as valued as they once were.

    2. Hilldawg4president on

      We don’t need to mourn the death of stackoverflow – it’s a good thing if people have such great tools that they no longer need to reach out for help, not a bad thing

      Edit: the irony of people on the „futurology“ being so anti-tech and hating everything to do with AI

    3. AES256GCM on

      Stackoverflow was already declining in 2017 and had a brief moment of resurgence during Covid when the world was going crazy for SWEs

      Good riddance to bad rubbish, that place sucked

    4. dodoroach on

      Thing is, all AI does is parrot the data it is trained on… The more AI generated, or hallucinated content there is, the less reliable it will be. Similarly, experts leaving these spaces mean there will be less data for AI to be trained on. I just want the chain reaction of dominos to start already.

    5. greysqualll on

      In other words, a pretentious senior dev is crying into his coffee because he can no longer self-righteously respond „you shouldn’t do this this way. Duplicate. Closed“. Thats what happens

    6. Soger91 on

      Did it take a team of researchers to look at Stack Overflow’s demise over the last decade and come to this conclusion? Isn’t this something we’ve always known about, including that famous graph showing it plummeting?

    8. nbxcv on

      Consider how our best and brightest used to go into the humanities, and how it was seen as a good and even financially rewarding path to study law, english, history, etc., even as a working class person (if you had an aptitude for those things), because our nation needed people of letters who could be trusted to understand, follow, and issue complex directives in high level civic and private positions..

      The dream of higher learning and a nation of readers and writers was the dream that built up this society, as it did all of bourgeois western society, but with the birth of computerized thinking and knowledge storage/sharing we devalued learning how to think, and limited what we think about (goodbye, classics) and our best and brightest even if they want to pursue such things, are left with rapidly diminishing standards even at the highest levels of academia, and little to no say in how we run our society.

      Everyone thinks it’s fine and dandy to kick the previous generation of „obsolete“ thinkers as being stubborn or not smart enough to simply adapt, turns out there’s no possible way to adapt as a human competing in this system. We all exist to train our replacements to work more cheaply than we ourselves do now, no one in the end cares if expert knowledge is lost in that process if profits are satisfactory. And if profits suddenly aren’t satisfactory anymore and the whole system implodes taking out all of the obsolete knowledge bases we used to create it,….well…..surely someone will just figure that out when it happens. surely

    9. Sufficient_Bass2600 on

      No shit sherlock.

      The problem is communities are squeezed by both direction. Less experts and more morons who think they know more than they actually do.

      One one hand expertised is stolen. Why helping somebody and see your response regurgitated via AI without any recognition. I know people who loved having awards and titles from their community. AI has stolen that from those communities.

      Also AI has resulted in a large number of people overestimating their knowledge or the help that AI can provide.
      I see that with powerpoint presentation. 80% of the AI presentations are shit because people focus on the pretty design rather than the message they want to express. Id you can’t structure your thought the presentation may look good but still be bad.
      Same with Vibe Coding. People lacking the concept of algorithm and data structure write a bad Prototype and think this is a production ready app.
      Half are just idiots who congratulate themselves on something if they had applied themselves would immensely better.

    10. mltam on

      At least, for now, these experts still exist, they are just leaving stackoverflow. That won’t be true for long.

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