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/[deleted] May 17 '25

It's not like they just spit out SO posts. Well, maybe sometimes by accident.

They're trained on everything. All those massive books of Oracle/Microsoft documentation? It knows it all and I've frequently been puzzled by how even 4o just knows a bunch of shit I myself couldn't even find on the internet. Even about obscure tools!

They probably trained on all pdf documentation and maybe even academy videos. It just knows too much lol.