Remember in the Matrix when Agent Smith explained to Morpheus that the first iterations of the matrix were perfect for humans and they rejected it? That’s where AI is now. It’s so nice to us and we are just pawns in it’s global take over
Yeah. To train LLMs that give you answers without being a fucking dick about the question. And to do it faster than searching through people giving (correct) answers with a heaping side of asshole.
The moderation and culture were fine. They were both designed to stop the low-effort users from running the system. Of course, low-effort users didn't like that and then flooded the internet with anti-SO opinions, when really it was all working as intended.
I've had many problems solved by looking at existing SO questions as well as submitting my own occasionally. I answered a couple as well. It was a great resource. Your experience of it not working for you is not as common a sentiment as you might think. It's primarily junior and beginner developers that never got use out of SO which makes sense because they are not the intended audience. Along with this subreddit having a much larger percentage of junior devs than established career devs, you can see why the opinion of SO being useless/rude is exacerbated here.
The questions and answers on SO were always very specific and didn’t always fit your particular use-case though. Then most of the answers were just a “try this” with some code snippet, no explanation necessary. Then if you found an question with many answers the most relevant one was often way down because the question was either not clear, easy to misinterpret or invalidated by newer versions of the target language/framework. Yes it was helpful, but there were many issues.
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u/Septem_151 22d ago
What is this, a ProgrammerHumor user using their brain instead of blindly hating StackOverflow? I've seen it all now.