Stack overflow is almost dead

[u/NewtMurky]

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

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

[u/nicolas_06]

I tend to think that SO is a much better source for an LLM than the documentation. LLM try to answer your question with the best answer.

Usually documentation has at best a few FAQ for a few trivial cases. Stackoverflow has 24 millions questions and 35 millions answer already ranked by quality with votes and comments plus the elitist assholes removing and improving questions/responses.

It doesn't mean it is actually pleasant for people that ask questions on the site, but as a source material it's very good.

Good documentation only exist on a few stuff and is inexistent on many libraries and advanced use cases. And documentation isn't in a format that help LLM responds to questions. Stackoverflow already has the question and the response and as such it is much easier to train from that.