99% of Stack Overflow questions have disappeared since ChatGPT
Stack Overflow used to get 207,000 questions a day; now it gets only 1,226 — a 99.4% decrease. There’s a vertical drop in November 2022, when ChatGPT came out. Since then, there’s been no recovery.
Stack Overflow, the site where programmers have gone for answers since 2008, used to receive 207,000 questions a day; now it receives only 1,226. A 99.4% decrease. There was a vertical drop in November 2022, when ChatGPT came out, and there’s been no recovery since.
AI-powered tools are starting to replace entire knowledge systems at once, not incrementally. When you have a tool that gives you answers quickly and cheaply, why bother asking other people?
Source: news.ycombinator.com
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