This. StackOverflow was great in the early days, when answers were fresh. Now? It's like so much of the Internet: outdated. Add to that all the students posting their homework problems, and wrong answers by wannabes, well...
I worry about a sort of idiocracy thing where we train the AIs on stackoverflow, stop using stack overflow and then find ourselves in a position where there's no stack overflow to train the AIs off haha.
It's okay, we have ChatGPT now.
My stackoverflow usage went down by >90% with ChatGPT. It is really a killer for them
We are doomed!
How will I remember how to serialize JSON sorting the keys, now... Oh well.
Oh no! I'm gonna have to read man pages
Out of all the questions I’ve needed answers to, maybe 10% were answered with SO. It’s not that great of a resource and most of it is outdated.
This. StackOverflow was great in the early days, when answers were fresh. Now? It's like so much of the Internet: outdated. Add to that all the students posting their homework problems, and wrong answers by wannabes, well...
Appears to be back up now
I worry about a sort of idiocracy thing where we train the AIs on stackoverflow, stop using stack overflow and then find ourselves in a position where there's no stack overflow to train the AIs off haha.