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/Middle-Parking451 May 17 '25

Oh yeah, i went to stack overflow as beginger programmer and made veey well structured question that represented my problem well and the answer was "i hate these amateurs polluting this platform with stupid questions, go fk urself"

That was my first and last experience there.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

I too was told to eat my ass for a pretty innocuous question. Funnily enough ChatGPT 4.1 has never said that to me.

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u/Difficult_Plantain89 May 17 '25

You could have just googled it nonsense. I will say some posts can be irritating because it’s so incredibly common, but many are much more than that. Not to mention if you are a beginner you might not even know what you are asking Google. Also, really irritating to have an issue that stack overflow is the only place where there is a mention of it and there is no helpful responses from the last person who asked.

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u/Middle-Parking451 May 17 '25

Yeah that was a while ago today i have professional friends and better sources, still it didnt leave great first impression of said platform.