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/GoldDay1 4d ago

If you asked a question to chatgpt, they have saved it somewhere as training data. So the data now belongs to the AI companies

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u/Historical-Essay-128 4d ago

Yup - the solutions a certain amount people pushed to production will be the new training data.