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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 2 days ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like it or hate it (personally I prefer the latter, posting there I felt like a middle schooler with a PUNCH ME sticker on my face) it was a great source of indexable data on programming.

I wonder how will this affect future search and llms, now that all similar questions are being asked in private llm threads.

[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I never once actually asked a question there. Partly because most of the time, the question I was asking had always been asked.

However, I have found the correct answer to 100s of questions there. Usually through google/ddg/kagi searches.