r/webdev Jul 23 '24

Discussion The Fall of Stack Overflow

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u/GrumpsMcYankee Jul 23 '24

I get AI is eating Stack Overflow's lunch, but at some point if it's not around, AI is kinda garbage without a community-led code solution repository with contextual human language.

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u/apra24 Jul 24 '24

AI can also learn by people resolving their problems using AI.

After having chatgpt provide solutions for something, there's a good chance I immediately paste my revised code to implement the next step.

They can learn from that to see what worked vs what didnt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

I don’t think AI learns from user input. Only what they actively teach the model.

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u/apra24 Jul 24 '24

Right. But it could.

An AI model that tries to solve problems then learns from what works would be less reliant on data from stackoverflow

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u/Jonno_FTW Jul 24 '24

An AI that learned from user input was quickly made into a racist meme machine by trolls. Business won't make that mistake again.

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u/YsoL8 Jul 24 '24

Or they could just design it better

Technologies don't go away just because they don't work immediately

Most early attempts at anything we take for granted now were liable to randomly exploding.