nixCraft 🐧23h ago
I don’t know what was worse, Stack Overflow’s moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site 🤔 Both extremes seem bad for the open web…. I still think that we don’t need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet
Show threadComputeum Vilshofen

@nixCraft

I still don't get why everyone is still carrying that false "AI killed Stackoverflow" framing?

Stackoverflow was slowing as most RTFM questions were already asked, so anyone able to search didn't have to ask a new one - AI just made the finding those answers ahead of time much more likely.

SO (and other SE sites) are simply down to a higher degree of real questions.

Jun 6 at 9:16amWeb
Show threadRussell15h ago

@Computeum @nixCraft The graph includes deleted questions but does not include any context to contrast with answered, duplicated, or spam questions. It's like it's designed to carry only one narrative.

Stack Overflow was never meant to be where every single person asks the same "How do I add an item to an array in [language]?" except maybe one person once per language. It's where you go to find the answer but that involves surfacing existing answers via search, not asking it again.