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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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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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[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 108 points 3 weeks ago

If LLMs just copied stack overflow they'd respond to every question with "Closed as duplicate. Question already answered."

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 weeks ago

and link a slightly similar question, which's answers can't be used in your case, because of the small difference. also, it's outdated since four years.

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

or 13 in case of python questions, and they are about python2

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