AI. It’s soooo much easier to ask an LLM your question. Even if its answer is wrong, at least it’s not an asshole
It doesn’t just whine that someone’s already answered the question. Oh it has been asked? Then link to the fucking answer!
My biggest pet peeve is when the first Google result for stack overflow is someone bitching at the asker to Google the question.
stack overflow is great if you want to be berated, given an irrelevant solution, and then have your question closed as a duplicate incorrectly
Exactly. It’s a good place to look for an answer, but if the answer isn’t there, save yourself from the angry mob and ask chatGPT.
It got eaten by ChatGPT and that other one
It’s notable that a major part of the drop happened before chatgpt was even released. Lots of good explanations here already for why that might be.
My personal anecdote is that it’s almost useless in relation to modern react (ts&functional). New questions aren’t being answered and old ones were answered with react& js or even jquery.
Removed by mod
Companies banning it? Coding getting easier with newer languages? Old folks like me not needing to look up as much anymore? Google getting overloaded with AI blogspam?
Feels like it could be a combination of things.
We were just talking about this the other day. The dropoff actually started before ChatGPT. The closest event that aligns with it is the introduction of GitHub Copilot, which makes sense
