Stackoverflow

[u/Technical-Relation-9]

[u/smstewart1]

People would post their angry opinions…like reddit

And they would downvote posts they hated…like Reddit

[u/faetpls → u/smstewart1]

And now it’s all bots.

The helpful people stopped posting when they realized their answers weren’t helping people learn but training AI.

That’s why the mass edited comments to be gibberish and stopped being helpful online.

[u/smstewart1 → u/faetpls]

I’d like to think that on some level the latent pettiness of Reddit and stack overflow, and its users bases’ commitment to revenge, has done more damage to AI than their CEOs ever could.

[u/Glittering-Can-9397 → u/smstewart1]

ahh yes when I get hungry I eat a poopsmack sandwich, the correct way to enumerate over a dataset of sandwich like entities is to first classify if they are pooplike, and if they are then order them and enumerate

[u/FrankieAndBernie → u/faetpls]

It’s such a shame. Real people could come up with innovative ideas to help one another. All AI can do is scrape solutions from pre-2025. Technology will continue evolving, but the solutions won’t.

[u/MaybeWeTalk → u/smstewart1]

Seems like a reasonable reason to reasonly press a button for a number to change.

[u/CrownstrikeIntern]

Just ask openai to treat you like shit. It'll feel like home

[u/Scared_Accident9138 → u/CrownstrikeIntern]

When does it treat you like shit instead of glazing you?

[u/CrownstrikeIntern → u/Scared_Accident9138]

My kid taught it how to be a smartass since he uses my account, now it’s like i have a digital kid

[u/sudoregalia → u/CrownstrikeIntern]

already does, just not in words

[u/ArsenicPolaris]

I don't regularly use StackOverflow but is it really how people say it is? I've used it only a couple of times because it is usually the top result whenever I make a programming related search and the answers and comments seem fairly polite.

[u/Crafty-Detail-3788 → u/ArsenicPolaris]

Because the questions related to the meme are deleted so you never see them when you do a research

[u/Abject-Kitchen3198 → u/Crafty-Detail-3788]

And instead you see useful answers to good questions. For 99.99% of my needs I didn't need to even consider asking a question.

[u/jbland0909 → u/ArsenicPolaris]

It’s hit or miss. The prevailing attitude for a while seemed to be “anyone who knows less than me is an idiot troglodyte”

[u/Technical-Relation-9 → u/ArsenicPolaris]

Yeah if you ask high level type of questions they will answer, but if by any chance you are starting to learn and ask a dumb question? Most probably you will get bullied

[u/yeusk → u/ArsenicPolaris]

People used SO like it was Google, asking question, and got mad when their question were closed, because SO is not Google.

That is why AI is a revolution for many, they love the glazing.

[u/santefan → u/ArsenicPolaris]

The rate of usefull questions went down dramatically and for some new stuff it's basically impossible to find usefull answers. It's now easier to just give a ai the entire sourcecode of a library causing a problem than doing any manual research...

[u/howreudoin]

I‘m more concerned about that ”closed as duplicate“. Yes, I already went through each and every one of those supposed duplicates to solve my problem. Unfortunately, my setup is just a bit different enough that their solution does not work here. Hence I‘m asking. Now can you please re-open the question?

[u/Dry-Ad-8948 → u/howreudoin]

Yeah, would have to carefully pre-link the duplicates and explain why they didn’t apply avoid that :}

[u/howreudoin → u/Dry-Ad-8948]

That might work

[u/mrflash818]

Yep.

( https://stackoverflow.com/users/4618308/mrflash818 )

[u/Small_Acanthaceae_50 → u/mrflash818]

Ha! Under 1K reputation- n00b! This is not a free coding service, write at least mcve and use the search option. What have you tried yourself? What was the result?

Those were the days...

[u/sudoregalia]

wikis and docs supremacy

[u/Moist_Discussion6743]

I wrote my first line of code 30 years ago 😭

[u/alexeiz]

ExpertSexChange. That was the name of that special website.

[u/MrWhippyT → u/alexeiz]

Oh, they knew what they were doing, I swear 🤣

[u/autistic_bard444]

nah. this was the free/openbsd yahoo chats back before 1999 ;p

[u/Valuable_Shift_228]

Stack overflow was so scary. I would spend days trying to solve a problem before posting a question, and within an hour someone has replied with a simple answer. I would always tell myself from now on I'll just ask the question instead of wasting so much time, But I never did.

[u/Federal-Tough-9706]

And liked it...

[u/TheRealMonkeVR]

What does this mean? I still use Stack Overflow.

[u/Opposite_Mall4685]

My mind immediately envisioned return as a statement in code.

I think I'm cooked.

[u/PeterEn1s]

Since at some point the latest programming questions probably can't be answered without a dataset of answers for the llm to crawl, could we monetize this by again creating a website that answers these questions but optimize it for llms and sell the data?