this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
668 points (99.3% liked)

Programming

17662 readers
240 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]



founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
668
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BenLloydPearson to c/programming
 

Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the past I tried to submit something to it, but didn't have enough reputation or whatever.

In general though, I'll try to use copilot first

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This tracks with my own experience of relying more on ChatGPT for coding assistance rather than searching Google (which would then lead to me to StackOverflow). ChatGPT has just been a faster way to get to the answer I’m looking for. StackOverflow is still a fantastic resource, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if devs have found a new way to have their code written for them... 😅

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›