StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454
I was, and occasionally still am, a contributor to SO. However, the community on SO drove me away multiple times. People were entitled, nitpicky, mean, and hostile.
AI was the…
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Yeah asking questions (or, for that matter, posting answers) on SO could get pretty nasty, pretty quickly! It reminded me of boards back in the day where you'd get flamed if you didn't already know the answer.
One thing it did do, to its credit, is make you ask a decent, well-researched question. Genuinely what happened with me quite often was, writing a question out in such a way I thought I'd covered all bases so as not to get shot down, actually helped me figure out the answer myself lol.
It was like the relentless athlete parent always going hard on you, for better or worse. But it is really surprising how long it took for them to take advantage of their amazing position for AI to be a benefit and not a curse, though!
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