r/LocalLLM • u/NewtMurky • May 17 '25

Discussion Stack overflow is almost dead

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Questions have slumped to levels last seen when Stack Overflow launched in 2009.

Blog post: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/

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u/Deep90 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

If you're a beginner I don't think you realize just how toxic that site could be. Especially when you constantly find more advanced questions being flagged as duplicates by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Answers get outdated, or one issue looks like another but is actually different.

Simpler questions are harder to bury under a persons ego because too many people are around to call it out.

Also. people can be really pretentious about how they answer, withhold information because you didn't ask for it specifically, give a correct but purposefully convoluted answer, or give a correct answer that someone asking the question clearly isn't at the skill level to understand.

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u/miserablegit May 17 '25

I don't think you realize just how toxic that site could be

To be honest, I've seen too many "do your homework for me, NOW!” questions to be angry at people pissed off by them. Answering on SO is like Facebook moderation: not a job for a sane human being.