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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is not the first time a platform goes bad and knowledge is lost. People used to think stack overflow was impossible to replace. Now we don't even use it anymore, most of us.

It will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What? Stack overflow is still very relevant. I don't even know what bubble you're in if you think it isn't.

Honestly confused by your comment.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm in the chat gpt bubble. Since that came along, it has replaced stack overflow almost completely for me.

It's still valuable when I Google on error messages though, that's true..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Where do you think GPT got this data?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honest question: what happened to Stack Overflow? I still get answers from it. Have I missed some incident??

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mostly use chat gpt now, but I guess stack overflow is still there if you don't use chat gpt. And it can be helpful for finding error messages from apps and figuring out what they mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ohh, I see! Thanks for replying. I often forget about ChatGPT as an alternative

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Stackoverflow is still very much impossible to replace. The amount of knowledge that it contains is simply too great to fall easily. And LLMs like ChatGPT aren't even close to being as helpful as SO answers, specially on archaic libraries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But what about the poop knife story?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Broken arms, jolly rancher...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Stupid long horse.