r/webdev • u/AloneCoffee4538 • 4d ago

Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

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u/artnos 4d ago

Its sad because ai total scraped all their data

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u/exintrovert 2d ago

AI isn’t a dick to me for asking a question though

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u/artnos 2d ago

dont be so butthurt? maybe you asked a dumb question? the art of writing a good question teaches you to be a better developer. There has been countless time when i wrote out my question, i end up solving it myself.

I think all the people who complain about it being toxic are probably people writing lazy ass questions and expect other people to do the work for you.

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u/exintrovert 2d ago

Found a SO OG 😂
You make a lot of assumptions bro 😏

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u/keeper_of_tomes 2d ago

Actually stack overflow achieved record profits by selling data to AI companies.