How do LLMs and AI coding tools solve new problems when Stack Overflow is dead?

1 gytrcrt 1 6/23/2025, 2:59:52 PM andreagao.com ↗

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incomingpain · 8h ago
stack overflow was declining for years, long before chatgpt. Clear in that graph.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/01/stack_exchange_contro...

It's completely within their right to eject people based on political opinions.

I dont understand why a gender neutral website of anonymous people talking about gender neutral tech has any reason to inject gender or even be concerned about it.

According the graph, 2017 peak, but when chatgpt launched, they were already 50% declined. After chatgpt, it increased the rate of decline but hardly was causal.

>Reddit and other forums

Reddit is declining just like Stack; for the same reasons.

>A new product similar to Stack Overflow but tailored to the AI era with better user experience might emerge to bridge the gaps. Developers could ask questions in a centralized place and LLM providers could access the difficult coding questions

The one thing I recommended to github.

Lets find a random issue for example:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1330

Why couldnt various AI have commented some answer? Perhaps co-pilot could read it, produce a fully tested agentic patch that maintainers could look at?