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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 5 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Free to use" on a VC-backed service just means you're the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I'm accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

Also, what do you mean "easily downloadable"? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

reddit.com

[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It's inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI