You may notice that their decline starts before LLM's rise begins. Cultivating an environment where specialists collect power through hostility to understandable mistakes and good faith questions was their real undoing, and it happened years ago.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 32 points 1 month ago

Blaming AI is such a sad excuse.

By their own chart, StackOverflow’s decline started at least five years before the popularity of LLMs skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, as a developer I feel like I wasn’t using Stack Overflow at all by 2020.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yea that's more my reading AND experience

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

"This question has already been answered by several programming textbooks. Why are you asking questions about it?"

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah, also [you posted bad question]