Technology

It will endure as long as the LLM's on there know how to misinterpret the question and fire back snarky unhelpful answers about how clueless you are for asking in the first place.

Like it or hate it (personally I prefer the latter, posting there I felt like a middle schooler with a PUNCH ME sticker on my face) it was a great source of indexable data on programming.

I wonder how will this affect future search and llms, now that all similar questions are being asked in private llm threads.

I stopped using it before chatgpt arrived. You can always find answers in the documentation or in github issues

Not necessarily directly, many people may have abandoned learning programming because of LLMs, rather than Stack Overflow specifically.

SO is a collaborative encyclopedia of technical discussion that tries to be relevant, be practical, and to not constantly repeat topics.

LLMs can't provide that structure, they just shit out answers.

Most people think SO is a help desk and don't appreciate the structure and just want it to shit out an answer.

Maybe SO isn't dying so much as a cancerous growth is being treated.

Ai haters out there, doesn't this give a valid use case for LLM?