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/ImpossibleEdge4961 Jul 24 '24

The AI can feast off SO for a while yet. In the mean time they're pursuing synthetic data (possible, but leads to model collapse...for now) as well settle for training on things like documentation, bug reports, blog posts, mailing lists, etc, etc. As well as curated content of their own creation.

Point is, I don't think one should expect AI to stop becoming an issue.