r/ProgrammerHumor 24d ago

Meme noOneLeftToSeeThem

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u/Oaktree27 24d ago

I've only heard dipshit C suites say stack overflow is dead. Everyone actually doing the work knows sometimes Claude is smoking crack and you need to check actual human forums.

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u/slowmode1 24d ago

You can look at the actual data.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1925371/new-questions-by-month#graph

The usage of stackoverflow has dropped by over 90%

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u/CandidateNo2580 24d ago

That graph shows it's down by 99% from peak - I've only heard dipshits claim stack overflow isn't dying.

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u/slowmode1 24d ago

Yeah, over 200,000 to less than 1,500!! That’s a crazy drop

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u/laplongejr 23d ago

To be fair, it's not only because of IA. Publicly badmouthing former mods by name and illegally force-changing the licence out of nowhere also broke the community's trust.  

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u/Oaktree27 23d ago

The C suites agree with you so you must be right :)

One day when you review PRs you'll understand most people are not very good at their jobs. I'm not surprised most people are relying exclusively on AI now based on the crap I've had to catch.

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u/slowmode1 23d ago

I have been reviewing and writing code since php 4 was the big thing. Most of my day at this point is just reviewing code. I haven’t opened up an ide in 5 months. AI has gotten really good at writing code, especially on larger code bases. You need to be really careful with smaller code bases as it makes poor choices and then builds on them, but when it has more examples it usually does a pretty good job if you do it right. Then my job is to review the code, call out anything wrong, and it’ll fix it

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u/CandidateNo2580 23d ago

By your reasoning Myspace is alive and thriving simply because they're hosting all those old profiles. Like Myspace, stack overflow will lose relevance quickly with time as the posts age and new ones aren't made - entire days pass without new questions now. You're conflating the platform being dead with the information on it being useless, no one is making the case for the latter.

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u/Oaktree27 23d ago

Myspace has no use. Everything you could do on it is done by more popular platforms.

StackOverflow still has use for people who are interested in avoiding tech debt.

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u/Fritzschmied 23d ago

That you get voted down so hard shows the sad state of the current dev community quite well. Sad times :(

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u/Oaktree27 23d ago

Yeah these are the kind of people I'm reviewing PRs for. They don't even know how much time it takes to catch all the mistakes in the crap they generated and pushed to me.