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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 97 points 1 year ago

I bet this is directly related to ChatGPT

[-] SuperFola@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

People prefer having something generating shitty code and not checking it, instead of asking or searching on internet for a substantially better solution

[-] Aidan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can have it generate shitty code and then compare it against examples it finds online to iterate that code. Also, it was trained on the whole internet, including those good solutions, and can often reproduce them on its own. but you have to tell it, explicitly, to do all this to make better code, rather than just asking for the code.

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