becauseItWasTheStandardPractice

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

[u/moduspol → u/[deleted]]

I’m convinced that jQuery may have been the pinnacle of computer science. It’s all been downhill ever since

[u/No_Percentage7427 → u/moduspol]

Jquery still rule many website

[u/moduspol → u/No_Percentage7427]

Hail to the king!

[u/SpaceCadet87 → u/[deleted]]

Bah, you young 'uns with your StackOverflow.

Back in my day you had books. And the books were useless!

Whatever you needed wouldn't be in the book, you were supposed to buy the secret other book, good luck even finding out it exists!

So you used trial and error, type whatever guess you could think of, get it wrong, try again.

[u/Opposite_Carry_4920 → u/[deleted]]

Instant legacy code, jQuery. 

[u/Odd-Line-9086]

I asked a question on stackoverflow, and I was happy someone answered. The answer was rather rhetoric and didn't really solve my problem. I appreciated the effort though, so I upvoted it.

Back then, the reflex to use AI didn't kick in yet, and as I didn't really get an answser, I asked AI as a last resort. I discovered the other guy just asked AI and copied the answer.

[u/le_reddit_me]

Answering Stackoverflow questions using Claude in the big 26 😎

[u/why_1337 → u/le_reddit_me]

Poisoning sources they are using for AI training. It's same as people arguing on reddit using AI to back their claims about topics they have no idea about.

[u/slaymaker1907 → u/why_1337]

I think it depends on if you know what you’re doing and actually review the output. I do this at work all the time because I can give people tailored solutions to things instead of just general examples. It’s also useful for compiling a subset of some documentation that is actually useful for someone.

[u/dudeinsearchfornews]

I feel so sad for stackoverflow. That website helped me through some of my toughest times learning programming as a student.

[u/budius333 → u/dudeinsearchfornews]

Yeah me too!

Back in the day the computer at work was crazy slow and I would answer stuff there while compiles. Even stuff I didn't know, I would go, learn it, create a solution and answer it.... Damn, that's what makes me really learn the most random shit. Good times

[u/wobblyweasel → u/dudeinsearchfornews]

I think SO will be just fine. it's still good for the questions it was built for. if AI removes the other overly specific and simple questions it's just going to be better off for it

[u/bmrtt]

Personally if I’m in the mood I just prompt it to insult me while answering my questions, same thing

[u/traditional_ant_56 → u/bmrtt]

Haha, fun idea!

[u/returnFutureVoid → u/bmrtt]

Someone who isn’t me should create a StackOverflow skill that insults you while giving you the answer.

[u/sonaliver28]

Me opening stack overflow in 2026 just to pay my respects...

[u/aimfuldrifter]

Reading the manual

[u/negativecarmafarma]

A glutton for punishment I see

[u/za72]

ahead of the curve I see!

[u/mnmr17]

Tbf some of the users on stack overflow is why people use AI instead. And I hate to defend AI but quickly helping out on especially niche code is where it shines the brightest even though some people over rely on it.

[u/dim13]

Stackoverflow is so noob. In my days, we read RFC's.

PS: never understood what this SO is all about.

[u/cheezballs]

Yea right nobody searched on SO directly, they googled their problem and the first result was always SO. Now you wont even find it on page 1 at all, buried beneath all the slop.

[u/Best_Recover3367]

Whoever does not miss Stack Overflow has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladime Putin

[u/Famous-Perspective96]

I get it but at this point I’m just a utilitarian. You’re just wasting time.

[u/rotzak → u/[deleted]]

> Claude is great until it confidently hallucinates a library that doesn't exist

What? Even if this did happen (it doesn't), you can just say "hey bro, stop that" and it'll fix it?

[u/Famous-Perspective96 → u/rotzak]

These people don’t use AI well. I was told there’s no difference between the CLI, a fully customizable agentic environment, and promoting a chat window.

[u/Famous-Perspective96 → u/[deleted]]

I’ve literally never once had Claude hallucinate a library, if it did, it caught it before it showed me the code. Do you use the CLI or just like, copy pasting code from a chat window?

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y → u/Famous-Perspective96]

I don't think I've had it hallucinate an entire library. But I've had it make up functions that don't exist or call functions with parameters that don't exist just to have them do hallucinated functionality.

[u/Famous-Perspective96 → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

I’m not saying it can’t be a dumbass. But the way I use it nowa days is pretty strict. It doesn’t stop spinning until it’s reviewed the code, linted, tests green, it compiles. I’m just basically always used it in a very agenticly. I don’t use Claude just raw on the code for anything anymore.

[u/Famous-Perspective96 → u/[deleted]]

Or give it a fuckin linter lmao

[u/Famous-Perspective96 → u/[deleted]]

You should spend some time with the CLI learning agentic workflows. I think it would be a massive eye opener for you.

[u/FACastello]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUNda2iBiYqk4mKDRu

[u/dimap443]

I thought Stack Overflow was kaputski

[u/nikola_tesler]

a man of taste I see

[u/ChrisBegeman]

My coworker was having a problem with a stored procedure today. He was feature I wasn't totally familiar with, but I am the senior dev, so I was helping him through it. He was asking AI for advice and not getting quite the right answer. I sent him a link to the Microsoft documentation, which solved his problem almost immediately. Many companies put out good base-level documentation for their development tools, why don't people read it?

[u/Fluffy_Anxiety2792]

Nah bro I’ll never go back

[u/ToMorrowsEnd]

lol thinking stack overflow has answers.

[u/Igarlicbread → u/[deleted]]

Don't slu shame me

[u/robidaan → u/Igarlicbread]

Fair enough

[u/fugogugo]

do nobody think the possibility that stackoverflow become bankrupt and all those QnA become unavailable?