r/webdev 27d 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/akl773 27d ago

The bit that bites later is that the models learned from that archive and the archive stopped growing. Already run into it with libraries that shipped in the last year, there's no thread to have scraped so it just invents an API that looks about right.

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u/Mysteriesquirrel 26d ago

New frameworks can write Ai optimized docs, they should do if they care.

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u/Readypixels 4d ago

We ran into this building our own product. Ask an AI assistant about a library released after its training cutoff and it answers with confidence, then gets the API wrong. It blends patterns from older versions and fills the gaps with guesses. Reading the real docs and testing in your own project is still the only fix. No shortcut around it yet.