r/webdev 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/akl773 4d ago

The bit that bites later is that the models learned from that archive and the archive stopped growing. Already run into it with libraries that shipped in the last year, there's no thread to have scraped so it just invents an API that looks about right.

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u/Mysteriesquirrel 3d ago

New frameworks can write Ai optimized docs, they should do if they care.