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The Fall of Stack Overflow(programming.dev)

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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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teydam@lemmy.world
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Is this due to the chatgpt?

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z00s@lemmy.world
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Its so exhausting having to train chat gpt to be condescending and to close all my threads as duplicates though

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Hector_McG@programming.dev
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The perversity of SO rewarding people for ensuring that the answers on SO are becoming increasingly outdated absolutely befuddles me.

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Eheran@lemmy.world
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ChatGPT went public at the start of the last kink downward. It can not be the reason for the big drop untill 2023.

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Dreadrat@aussie.zone
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Probably chatgpt getting all the easy high volume questions, yeah.

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