Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely “yes:”

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    18 天前

    Yep, they aggressively XY problem your question until you give up. Also why many questions do not give the answer to the problem what most people asking that question would ask.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      18 天前

      Then the author marks the question as answered because doing Y solves their problem…

      Good for you, but I actually need to do X and Y wouldn’t work for me. At least change the title so it doesn’t come up as the top result in search engines.