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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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[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 33 points 1 week ago (15 children)

My experience with SO is that I'll look up a question about how to do something using X method and all the answers are like "why are you using X?" or "here's how to do it using Y.". You rarely find people answering the questions and instead find people trying to spread gospel about a certain tech that you aren't using.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

My experience with SO is somewhat the same, but sometimes (actually maybe most times) you're trying to use a hammer to screw in a screw.. If you read the suggestions and take them into account you can often find the actual question, and then the actual answer.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My experience has been more like this:

OP: I’m trying to make lasagna from scratch but my noodles aren’t turning out right. Here’s my noodle recipe and settings for my pasta machine.

Mod: duplicate post of “How to make canned spaghetti bolognese” thread locked.

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