[mono442]

In my option traditional forums, especially for beginners, doesn't make sense anymore in the age of LLMs.

[zahlman]

My sample might be biased (it comes from places like the Python Discord) but from what I've seen of how people completely new to programming typically use LLMs, this is decidedly not the case. It could work if people had an instinct to turn the LLM into a tutor and attempt to verify everything manually. But in practice, people ask the LLM to do things for them, and turn to humans when the LLM gets stuck.

[Macha]

Forum as a task oriented knowledge sharing site? Sure, but even stack overflow had obsoleted that. But that’s only one type of traditional forum, and I’d say a minority one at that. The main purpose was communities and the threats there are the same as they always were - social media, and chat apps. I’d say discord is the biggest impact there

[nkrisc]

You keep your LLMs I’ll keep my forums.

[Lukas_Skywalker]

Aren‘t the LLMs going to starve if there is no more organic data to feed off?

[Night_Thastus]

Exactly. People forget that all the output of these LLMs is only as good as the input data. The moment they stop getting fed the latest data, they get stale. If there's no data to scrape about [LANGUAGE] - then the LLM can't help with it. (Or even if that data is out of date enough)

IE: The death of SO, while deserved, will end up hurting LLMs in the long run.

[TRiG_Ireland]

What a weird idea. I've found the Typst forum very helpful a number of times. I've never yet engaged willingly with an LLM, and do not intend to.

[nancyminusone]

I take it you've never been on a phone call, waiting until you get the chance to talk to a real human?