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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Ever ask a question on SO? I tell my students to search there but never, ever ask a question. The unmitigated hostility is not what new developers need or deserve. ChatGPT won't humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Problem being that someone else asked the question 10 years ago and the answer is now irrelevant due to version changes. People with high scores are just early adopters who answered all of the easy questions. Hostile users generally can't understand the question. The issue with llms answering your question is that they are going to be stuck in the current time period. In the future their answers will also be irrelevant due to version changes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Earlier today I googled how to toggle full screen in dosbox-x and the AI-generated answer said to use alt+enter. Tried it and it didn't work, so I look in the documentation and it turns out that they changed it to F12+f a while ago (probably to avoid interfering with actual dos input).

This is definitely already a problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Every LLM is shit at dealing with version changes. They don't understand it as a concept, despite all their training data.

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