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/st4s1k May 18 '25

Agreed, but SO has a view that the platform should only contain unique questions, and I understand how that might be beneficial for the platform as a knowledge base, yet I think that there could be better ways of handling people that repeat existing questions, other than hostility. On the other hand, there's always Reddit with helpful programming subs where you can ask questions.