zalasur,
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So, about the StackOverflow/openAI announcement:

I'll be honest: SO's utility has, along with a number of online resources for technical information, degraded considerably in recent years. It's hard to put my finger on when this started happening, but the days of "I just copied the code off of SO" are years behind us.

Partly this has to do with the proliferation of web platforms. When everyone was using jQuery it was easy to consolidate common questions and answers. Not so much anymore.

zalasur,
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But another aspect to the problem is that a lot of people who answer technical questions seem to have this habit of missing the point.

Instead if answering a question straight, they try to guess at the questioner's true intent and answer the question they think is being asked.

Or they berate them for asking and wasting everyone's time.

Or they just flat out answer incorrectly. And that one gets upvoted for some reason.

It's been a creeping problem for years.

zalasur,
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So the news about LLM integration is just the final layer of icing of the shit cake that SO has turned into in recent years. Basically it will accelerate what has been an ongoing entropy issue with the site.

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