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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
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[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The stupidest part is that their aggressive hostility against new questions means that the content is becoming dated. The answers to many, many questions will change as the tech evolves.

And since AI’s ability to answer tech questions depends heavily on a similar question being in the training dataset, all the AIs are going to increasingly give outdated answers.

They really have shot themselves in the foot for at best some short term gain.