Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"
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Not necessarily directly, many people may have abandoned learning programming because of LLMs, rather than Stack Overflow specifically.
I don't think such trend would be so big. And anyone who has used any LLM for programming learns very quickly that those are very far from replacing anyone
For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.
I use it to bounce ideas around with or get it to direct me in the right direction if I am stumped for further research, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I have it write more than the most gruntiest of grunt boilerplate code. It just can't do it to a useful standard without a lot of oversight.
Same, it's largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.
People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.
I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don't really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.
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When I was a student I despised the idea of typeless var in C#. Then a few years later at my day job I fully embraced C++ auto. I understand the frustration but unfortunately being wrong is part of learning
You’re pulling this out of your ass. That is completely made up.