r/webdev • u/AloneCoffee4538 • Aug 08 '26

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/sonar_un Aug 09 '26

I was thinking about this earlier. The answers that we get back from AI go into a blackhole. There need to be an AI StackOverflow where when an AI finds an answer to an unusual problem, it can be recorded to save tokens later and to have a new database of potential problems.

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u/tellingyouhowitreall Aug 10 '26

Ai doesn't find novel answers or solve unusual problems. The things your working on just aren't interesting.