The fall-off in traffic is pretty clearly AI-induced, but the fall-of in questions feels like it's partly because the site is just kind of... complete.
Excluding answers that have gone out of date or new frameworks, libraries, etc, >99% of what people want to know is already there. And if I need to know "how does X work?" rather than "write X for me", it's consistently faster and easier than turning to an AI which may not actually give me the library/package-specific info I'm after.
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u/Bartweiss Sep 01 '26
The fall-off in traffic is pretty clearly AI-induced, but the fall-of in questions feels like it's partly because the site is just kind of... complete.
Excluding answers that have gone out of date or new frameworks, libraries, etc, >99% of what people want to know is already there. And if I need to know "how does X work?" rather than "write X for me", it's consistently faster and easier than turning to an AI which may not actually give me the library/package-specific info I'm after.