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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That's strange. It's almost never my experience on stack overflow.

What you're describing happens mostly on reddit and lemmy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thats been my experience as well.

On SO it seems much more likely that the answers answering a different question have a negative score.

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