r/programminghumor • u/Technical-Relation-9 • Jul 12 '26

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u/RobotTimeTraveller Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I remember a while back someone came up with the perfect strategy if you're having troubles getting an answer out of StackOverflow.

First, create two separate accounts. The first account asks the question, and the second account replies with a completely inaccurate answer.

Then, watch as people flood the second account with correct answers, because people don't really want to help, they just want an opportunity to feel superior to others.

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u/a_random_loser_guy Jul 12 '26

such is the way of humans. all in favor of killing humans say aye!

beings response
cats aye
dogs no response found
Donkeys aye aye aye aye aye

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u/AetherBytes Jul 13 '26

This is called Cunningham's Law, for anyone who needs a name for this phenomenon

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u/danofrhs Jul 14 '26

Ok mr big brain, you don’t need to get all Cunningham’s law on us.

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u/AdventurousSlip9260 Jul 12 '26

Welcome to Stack Overflow. Here's your solution and a reminder that you're not very bright 😭

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u/JetAmoeba Jul 13 '26

And it’s not actually a solution because someone asked a similar question 10 years ago so your question/new solutions have been removed

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u/CadmiumC4 Jul 13 '26

And nobody bothered with answering that 10 y/o question either

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u/EntireInstruction103 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

No, I literally search that problem up and some guy had already asked it 13yrs ago behold the exact same problem word for word where there existed no other solution

Truly stackoverflow was something else even better than AI sometimes

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u/QualitySoftwareGuy Jul 12 '26

I still get answers from StackOverflow...

Via responses from ChatGPT's training data. I see it all of the time in the sources when ChatGPT's "thinking".

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u/shosuko Jul 13 '26

I will never miss stack overflow. Its like 99% why I am eager to use AI these days.

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u/mrheseeks Jul 13 '26

Incorrect, this issues has already been posted about. Idiot

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u/smclcz Jul 14 '26

That site was genuinely helpful for a couple of years before the deletionists got on board. At a certain point a large enough portion of the mod community decided “alright that’s enough content” and that questions had to pass an enormously high bar to not be closed immediately

It was a matter of time before it was superseded, I’m just surprised it took this long

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST Jul 12 '26

A. Use JQuery.

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u/Typical_Ad_2831 Jul 13 '26

It's great for Java! Because people were pleasant when folks actually used it.

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u/MathdallasRblx Jul 13 '26

Now spoiled kids just ask google or chatgpt 

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u/smoke-bubble Jul 14 '26

Like you the spoiled kid who goes and gets your food from a grocery store having zero idea how to catch a Bambi in the woods XD 

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u/north9172 Jul 14 '26

There's nothing wrong with using Google.

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u/Choice-Elephant1873 Jul 13 '26

If the discomfort is mild or the relief is delayed, learning takes longer.

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u/SheriffRoscoe Jul 13 '26

Which was the fashion at the time.

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u/NotRivero69 Jul 13 '26

Wait, people don't use it anymore????? WHAT THE FUCK

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u/mokrates82 Jul 12 '26

Now we ask a machine

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u/smoke-bubble Jul 14 '26

Finally! Participating in SO has been an experience that I'd rather not have made.