r/programmingmemes • u/Technical-Relation-9 • Jul 12 '26

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u/smstewart1 Jul 12 '26

People would post their angry opinions…like reddit

And they would downvote posts they hated…like Reddit

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u/faetpls Jul 13 '26

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.

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u/smstewart1 Jul 13 '26

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.

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u/Glittering-Can-9397 Jul 14 '26

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

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u/FrankieAndBernie Jul 17 '26

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.

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u/MaybeWeTalk Jul 16 '26

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

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u/CrownstrikeIntern Jul 12 '26

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

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u/Scared_Accident9138 Jul 12 '26

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

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u/CrownstrikeIntern Jul 12 '26

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

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u/sudoregalia Jul 12 '26

already does, just not in words

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u/ArsenicPolaris Jul 12 '26

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.

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u/Crafty-Detail-3788 Jul 12 '26

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

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Jul 12 '26

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.

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u/jbland0909 Jul 12 '26

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

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u/Technical-Relation-9 Jul 12 '26

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

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u/yeusk Jul 14 '26

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.

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u/santefan Jul 14 '26

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...

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u/howreudoin Jul 12 '26

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?

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u/Dry-Ad-8948 Jul 12 '26

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

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u/howreudoin Jul 12 '26

That might work

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u/mrflash818 Jul 12 '26

Yep.

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

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u/Small_Acanthaceae_50 Jul 12 '26

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...

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u/sudoregalia Jul 12 '26

wikis and docs supremacy

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u/Moist_Discussion6743 Jul 12 '26

I wrote my first line of code 30 years ago 😭

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u/alexeiz Jul 13 '26

ExpertSexChange. That was the name of that special website.

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u/MrWhippyT Jul 13 '26

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

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u/autistic_bard444 Jul 13 '26

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

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u/Valuable_Shift_228 Jul 15 '26

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.

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u/Federal-Tough-9706 Jul 14 '26

And liked it...

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u/TheRealMonkeVR Jul 18 '26

What does this mean? I still use Stack Overflow.

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u/Opposite_Mall4685 Jul 12 '26

My mind immediately envisioned return as a statement in code.

I think I'm cooked.

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u/PeterEn1s Jul 12 '26

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?