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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can SO just die off already so a less toxic platform can take its place?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I'm sure everone will get mad and move to reddit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

This seems like a smart move for a company that's struggling financially.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Companies like this really are failing to think long term. AIs cannot create new content. All they can do is rehash their training data, because they're effectively a glorified autocomplete. So in a few years time, Stack Overflow will have new questions on it, some of which will relate to new problems. Those questions will require humans with real knowledge and understanding to answer them, and where's the motivation for anybody to do that if their answer will immediately be fed into an AI? In the long-term AIs will be useless because they can't advance or update without new content, and humans are being disincentivised from creating new content by companies who want to make a quick buck selling their content without compensating them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Angering programmers. That’s a great idea…

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

They think they don't need us any more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Depending who you're talking about, they don't. If the bosses can find a way to bring in some extra money and then leave after 6 months or a year, they got what they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ass overflow

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Welp. If SO had been usable for the past decade, that would've been a real blow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago