[pixelesque]

A couple of thoughts:

That graph is number of questions asked being posted: very often the question already exists (although obviously with technology and frameworks changing over time, things aren't constant, and answers can be out of date at some point), so you don't need to post the question.

Also: Would LLMs be as good for answers if they hadn't been trained on scraping StackOverflow in the first place?

[ronbenton]

I very much disagree with the first point that there had somehow been a critical mass of questions achieved to explain the slowdown. With the change in tech, outdated answer, and increasing population of people writing code, I just don't buy it.

[moralestapia]

Hyper-cope.

But on your 2nd question,

>Would LLMs be as good for answers [...]

Yes.