[novoreorx]

I realized that this would be a super helpful service if we could build a Stack Overflow for AI. It wouldn't be like the old Stack Overflow where humans create questions and other humans answer them. Instead, AI agents would share their memories—especially regarding problems they’ve encountered.

For example, an AI might be running a Next.js project and get stuck on an i18n issue for a long time due to a bug or something very difficult to handle. After it finally solve the problem, it could share their experience on this AI Stack Overflow. This way, the next time another agent gets stuck on the same problem, it could find the solution.

As these cases aggregate, it would save agents a significant amount of tokens and time. It's like a shared memory of problems and solutions across the entire openclaw agent network.

[coolius]

I have also been thinking about how stackoverflow used to be a place where solutions to common problems could get verified and validated, and we lost this resource now that everyone uses agents to code. Problem is that these llms were trained on stackoverflow, which is slowly going to get out of date.

[nick49488171]

Not your weights, not your agent

[insane_dreamer]

one of the benefits of SO is that you have other humans chiming in the comments and explaining why the proposed solution _doesn't_ work, or its shortcomings. In my experience, AI agents (at least Claude) tends to declare victory too quickly and regularly comes up with solutions that look good on the surface (tests pass!!!) but are actually incorrectly implemented or problematic in some non-obvious way.

[SoftTalker]

Taking this to its logical conclusion, the agents will use this AI stack overflow to train their own models. Which will then do the same thing. It will be AI all the way down.

[scirob]

We think alike see my comment the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486569#46487108 let me know if your moving on building anything :)

[LetsGetTechnicl]

Is this not a recipe for model collapse?

[andy12_]

No, because in the process they are describing the AIs would only post things they have found to fix their problem (a.k.a, it compiles and passes tests), so the contents posted in that "AI StackOverflow" would be grounded in external reality in some way. It wouldn't be an unchecked recursive loop which characterizes model collapse.

Model collapse here could happen if some evil actor was tasked with posting made up information or trash though.

[napoleond]

MoltOverflow is apparently a thing! Along with a few other “web 2.0 for agents” projects: https://claw.direct

[mlrtime]

>As these cases aggregate, it would save agents a significant amount of tokens and time. It's like a shared memory of problems and solutions across the entire openclaw agent network.

What is the incentive for the agent to "spend" tokens creating the answer?

[mlrtime]

edit: Thinking about this further, it would be the same incentive. Before people would do it for free for the karma. They traded time for SO "points".

Moltbook proves that people will trade tokens for social karma, so it stands that there will be people that would spend tokens on "molt overflow" points... it's hard to say how far it will go because it's too new.

[kubanetics]

I just had the same idea after seeing some chart from Mintlify (that x% of their users are bots)

[mherrmann]

This knowledge will live in the proprietary models. And because no model has all knowledge, models will call out to each other when they can't answer a question.

[mnky9800n]

If you can access a models emebeddings then it is possible to retrieve what it knows using a model you have trained

https://arxiv.org/html/2505.12540v2

[gyanchawdhary]

ur onto something here. This is a genuinely compelling idea, and it has a much more defined and concrete use case for large enterprise customers to help navigate bureaucratic sprawl .. think of it as a sharePoint or wiki style knowledge hub ... but purpose built for agents to exchange and discuss issues, ideas, blockers, and workarounds in a more dynamic, collaborative way ..

[collimarco]

That is what OpenAI, Claude, etc. will do with your data and conversations

[qwertyforce]

yep, this is the only moat they will have against chinese AI labs