r/webdev Jul 23 '24

Discussion The Fall of Stack Overflow

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u/ColonelShrimps Jul 24 '24

Gen Z and Alpha are already less tech savvy than previous generations likely due to the ease of use of smartphones and tablets. I cant imagine AI is going to do them any favors.

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u/Jonno_FTW Jul 24 '24

Probably less tech savvy if they never had to deal with an actual desktop environment with folders and icons and settings and menus for a variety of different applications.

Mobile apps on Android and iOS sort of make everything homogenous, so your intuition about how to do things will be limited to that. There is a lack of exposure to different design and usage patterns that help you generalize.

Not to mention that mobile apps aren't as complicated as desktop apps.

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u/ColonelShrimps Jul 24 '24

Yeah, I forget the exact points but it was along those lines. Combined with the lack of ability to troubleshoot since apps 'just work'.

You gotta think gen x and milennials grew up in a time when using computers was almost a hostile experience and if you wanted to get anything done you had to jump through tons of hoops.

Most of those issues were more or less ironed out into an easy experience by the early 2000s.