The Fall of Stack Overflow
Link: https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516
@hn50
>Perl is a good example because it's stagnant. Googling Python or Java? If the result is up to date, it's a low quality content farm. If it isn't from a content farm, it's a page from 2008 that is no longer relevant at all!
dude.
dude.
dude, it's $CURRENT_YEAR
there are now only two kinds of programming languages
a. those you should RTFM for and not ask the internet about at all. Don't 'google' anything. Go directly to the official documentation and the official community and stop there.
b. those you should ask ChatGPT or similar for help with. Don't 'google' anything. Don't ask Stackoverflow. If you're writing for an old widely-spammed language like every one named here, then 'googling' is absolutely a waste of your time.
>Perl is a good example because it's stagnant. Googling Python or Java? If the result is up to date, it's a low quality content farm. If it isn't from a content farm, it's a page from 2008 that is no longer relevant at all!
dude.
dude.
dude, it's $CURRENT_YEAR
there are now only two kinds of programming languages
a. those you should RTFM for and not ask the internet about at all. Don't 'google' anything. Go directly to the official documentation and the official community and stop there.
b. those you should ask ChatGPT or similar for help with. Don't 'google' anything. Don't ask Stackoverflow. If you're writing for an old widely-spammed language like every one named here, then 'googling' is absolutely a waste of your time.
@hn50 and also the obvious evolution for places like SO is to have their own LLM that answers questions first, and only incorporates positive-voted answers and questions after they've been marked answered or closed.
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@apropos @hn50 maybe copilot, but certainly not chatgpt. Not that copilot is better, maybe just better contained https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1683208798700449792
