Stack Overflow, an online community for software coders, has seen traffic fall since OpenAI's GPT-4 AI model came out earlier this year.
  • itchy_lizard@feddit.itEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    God the narrative of Business Insider is gross.

    The only thing making SO decline is that they have a CEO. And that CEO is trying to “compete”.

    Just keep being a great platform for Q&A and stop chasing profits. People prefer SO because the ansewrds are trustworthy. LLMs will always bullshit you and never be better than a platform free of AI crap.

    • Klame@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Also, LLMs are trained on SO data. It remains a staple for coding, LLMs just reinforced that.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree. That being said, there is some majorly bad answers on stack overflow. 9 times out of 10 I get wrong answers, and one time I was looking for a solution in Arduino and someone answered in Javascript for some reason.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      The decline has accelerated since the release of ChatGPT, which suggests there may be a connection, especially given ChatGPT’s ability to answer many coding questions.

      Stack Overflow posts, 2018-23:

      Stack Overflow's decline in posts accelerates in 2023

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      ChatGPT traffic, 2022-23:

      ChatGPT's rise in traffic in 2023

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