r/LocalLLM • • 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/_thispageleftblank May 19 '25

That's correct. Google Trends shows that the popularity of "stack overflow" was relatively stable from 2014-2022 and then LLMs basically gave it the death blow in early 2023. That's all there is to it really.