Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote: The complex…
Damn, I hadn’t visited the site (according to my profile page) in just over 5 years. I’ve had an account for little over 17 years, which puts me in the early adopters.
Anyway, yeah, I’m one of those top-end commenters that left the site during Covid because everything went to shit: too many new low quality questions, too many assholes whining about it and overreacting making the problem worse, and the owners had basically already abandoned the site for years after Stack Exchange failed to become the dominant framework for the entire internet.
It’s a real shame, there’s never been a resource so good for programming and probably never will be again. Now that AI is out there stealing every bit of knowledge, all the experts I know are hoarding up and looking to sell their expertise at premium since it’s knowledge and experience that AI can’t get or replicate.
Damn, I hadn’t visited the site (according to my profile page) in just over 5 years. I’ve had an account for little over 17 years, which puts me in the early adopters.
Anyway, yeah, I’m one of those top-end commenters that left the site during Covid because everything went to shit: too many new low quality questions, too many assholes whining about it and overreacting making the problem worse, and the owners had basically already abandoned the site for years after Stack Exchange failed to become the dominant framework for the entire internet.
It’s a real shame, there’s never been a resource so good for programming and probably never will be again. Now that AI is out there stealing every bit of knowledge, all the experts I know are hoarding up and looking to sell their expertise at premium since it’s knowledge and experience that AI can’t get or replicate.
Where are your friends selling their expertise? A new business opportunity for paid SO? Ala “expert sex change”?