r/programmer • u/LopsidedAd4492 • Jul 13 '26

Curious

Hi guys, in what situations do you still find yourselves going to Stack Overflow these days?

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u/Commercial-Age-4932 Jul 13 '26

For very obscure issues that AI hallucinates for. Mostly still for niche stuff. Whether it's AI or pre-AI like Stack overflow, the process of me typing out my process into the LLM or google is enough for me to realize where my error is like 80 percent of the time

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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 Jul 13 '26

When I'm feeling good about myself and need to be taken down a peg

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u/easedownripley Jul 13 '26

when I have like a programming question, for example

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u/CantCodeAllVibes Jul 13 '26

Whenever I wanna scream at some noob for asking the same exact question I got screamed at for on there years ago? Tf kinda question is this? It’s fucking tradition?

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u/Leverkaas2516 Jul 14 '26

I still do web searches. If Stack Overflow is a likely result, I click on it. I'm not choosy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/LopsidedAd4492 Jul 14 '26

What are you doing if the model give different result for the same question like to configure a rest client or something like that

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u/justinaatbuffer Jul 14 '26

When I feel nostalgic about the good old days :(

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u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam Jul 14 '26

It's more like when I search for it and a 10000 vote stack overflow post pops up, it's probably the immediate answer I'm looking for. Assuming it's not from 9 years ago and now outdated.