Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
I feel so bad for the long term contributors :/
The only good thing I could think off, is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?
Or something similar, to bring back real human interaction…
If this wasn’t enough, This will probably raise war against corporated AI.
It won’t. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.
SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you’ll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.
So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.
Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it’s pretty much the same as before.
Most people don’t care. Most people feel so powerless, that they’ll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.
Do people still use stack overflow? I feel like their days are numbered.
Well, when good documentation is available it isn’t necessary but good documentation is not always available. And it can still be helpful with niche issues 🤷
I mean, good documentation + LLM = Stack overflow is 100% obsolete
Why else would they speed run enshitification?
People cheering on SOs demise don’t realize what we’re losing.
Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass. Asking the same question over and over, hoping somone is around to help.
It sucks.
And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.
And they smell bad too!
It’s time for a federated version. How about “OutOfMemory”? It would fit because I always return to the same topics on StackOverflow.
Stack Overflow, technically a neutral term. Idk though whether the name in such a context would violate any trademark laws even if it’s a non-profit platform.
Snack Overflow
Nullpointer Exception
Access Violation
