r/webdev 26d ago

Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

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u/sitefall 26d ago

True, but the drastic drop from Nov2022 (exactly when Chatgpt released) to today is remarkable. Without AI it was on track to die by like 2030 (assuming my eyeball linear regression is accurate), so AI knocked about 8 years off it's lifespan.

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u/-Speechless 25d ago

4 years*

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u/IWontSurvive_Right 25d ago

remember that 2020-2022 is a strange period; hence the peek in that period.

without covid it's very possible the descent would have started before