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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 30 points 1 month ago

Blaming AI is such a sad excuse.

By their own chart, StackOverflow’s decline started at least five years before the popularity of LLMs skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, as a developer I feel like I wasn’t using Stack Overflow at all by 2020.