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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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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 56 points 2 days ago (25 children)

So here’s what I don’t get. LLMs were trained on data from places like SO. SO starts losing users ,and thus content. Content that LLMs ingest to stay relevant.

So where will LLMs get their content after a certain point? Especially for new things that may come out or unique situations. It’s not like it’ll scrape the answer from a web page if people are just asking LLMs.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The need for the service that SO provided won't go away. Eventually people will migrate to new places to discuss. LLM creators will either constantly scrape those as well, forcing them to implement more and more countermeasures and GenAI-poison, or the services themselves will enshittify and sell our content (i.e. the commons) to LLM-creators.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I worry that the replacement is more likely a move to platforms like Discord. I mean it's already happened in a lot of projects.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Discord is terrible for this.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they move to Discord, nobody will ever be able to find the answers. They must use a website that is indexable by search engines or it will be pointless.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it's what I was referring to in the second part.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I've never been accused of being a smart man.

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