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

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The need for the service that SO provided won't go away. Eventually people will migrate to new places to discuss. LLM creators will either constantly scrape those as well, forcing them to implement more and more countermeasures and GenAI-poison, or the services themselves will enshittify and sell our content (i.e. the commons) to LLM-creators.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I worry that the replacement is more likely a move to platforms like Discord. I mean it's already happened in a lot of projects.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Discord is terrible for this.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If they move to Discord, nobody will ever be able to find the answers. They must use a website that is indexable by search engines or it will be pointless.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, it's what I was referring to in the second part.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I've never been accused of being a smart man.