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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Never again will I help provide content to a VC-backed service just so that they can rugpull us and cash-out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What exactly do you accuse Stack Overflow for? As far as I know this service has always been free to use and data is easily downloadable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Free to use" on a VC-backed service just means you're the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I'm accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

Also, what do you mean "easily downloadable"? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It's inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I live in the hope that the insightful comments I left on reddit over my long tenure there will eventually be part of a FOSS corpus, once the VCs can't extract anything of competitive value from it anymore. I'll be long dead, but my comments will live on.

[–] isaakengineer 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for a life of mine, I can't understand why people don't value knowledge enough to make their own website and be proud of it; PS. I have made a load of CMS and now working on new approach to web dev ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Because it won't be used and won't be seen, that's the sad reality of it. I do host a small personal blog run of org-mode+hugo, but it gets less visitors than a library at midnight