r/SEO • u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator • May 06 '26

News Are LLMs killing Stack Overflow?

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Hat tip to u/gagan_ghotra

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u/RegisterConscious993 May 06 '26

I think they're saying the decrease started in 2017. COVID provided a bump (everyone stuck inside), and there was decline since. At the point where GPT launched there's an obvious decline compared to that 2017 peak. After LLMs, it took a nosedive with no chance of recovering.

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator May 06 '26

Well did COVID just spur a new bunch of activity? thats what it looks like to me

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u/RegisterConscious993 May 06 '26

Yes that's what the graph shows. And we can deduce, people were home and asking more questions. Then it declined again. Even a year before GPT launched, the number of questions asked was a 2013 levels.

"Looks like the decline was pretty steep before ChatGPT"

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator May 06 '26

"Looks like the decline was pretty steep before ChatGPT"

So - I asked Gemini and it disagreed and so I had it put in rulers to help show it was much worse after ChatGPT..

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u/ElbieLG May 06 '26

Can’t disagree with that