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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.


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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 year ago

ChatGPT has no knowledge of the answers it gives. It is simply a text completion algorithm. It is fundamentally the same as the thing above your phone keyboard that suggests words as you type, just with much more training data.

[-] Barbarian772@feddit.de 42 points 1 year ago

Who cares? It still gives me the answers i am looking for.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah it gives you the answers you ask it to give you. It doesn't matter if they are true or not, only if they look like the thing you're looking for.

[-] focus@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

the good thing if it gives you the answer in a programming language is that its quite simple tontestvif the output is what you expect, also a lot of humans hive wrong answers...

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