Stack Overflow Does Not Want To Help You
25 Nov, 2024
Stack Overflow's traffic has been in decline, and the convenient narrative is to blame it on LLMs.
However, I think developers were already looking for reasons to stop interacting with Stack Overflow. LLMs have massive blind spots. New framework releases, yesterday's OS update, and niche languages are not in LLM training data. These are the problems where Stack Overflow should shine over AI. Yet traffic is declining even in these areas.
I recently found myself caught between these t...
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