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biggestfan | 7 months ago

"49,000+" makes this the least responses the survey has gotten since 2016 ("over fifty thousand"), every year in between has been in the 65-100k range. Seems as though enthusiasm around SO has diminished significantly over the past year.

My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

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lenerdenator|7 months ago

GitHub Copilot and Cline are significantly less condescending.

ASalazarMX|7 months ago

If SO disappeared, I wonder what effect it would have in the training of LLMs as languages and tooling continue to evolve.

unwise-exe|7 months ago

The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.

pelagicAustral|7 months ago

This is the first year I didn't care to participate, but I've been away from SO for about 4 years now.

hu3|7 months ago

I can repeat the same question to AI all day and it is happy to help me.

ASalazarMX|7 months ago

Which is something you shouldn't ever do to a human. SO made you search and think before posting, while AI trains people to outsource thinking.

For all its failings, SO strived for a very high signal-to-noise ratio, and it achieved it.

mathattack|7 months ago

Some added commentary on the concentration of programming languages: https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/analyzing-the-stack...

phendrenad2|7 months ago

I think people are abandoning SO because AI often gives better answers. And also SO search results on Google just got so much worse a few years ago, you search Google for "how to do X in framework Y" and get SO results about doing X in framework Z.