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We're talking about stackoverflow right? The website is a veritable gold mine of carefully answered queries. Sure, some people are shit, but how often are you unable to get at least some progress on a question from it? I find it useful in 90-95% of queries, i find the answers useful in 99% of queries that match my question. The thing is amazing! I Google search a problem, and there's 5 threads of people with comparable issues, even if no one has my exact error, the debugging and advice around the related errors is almost always enough to get me over the hump.

Why all the hate? AI answers can suck, definitely. Stackoverflow literally holds the modern industry up. Next time you have a technical problem or error you don't understand go ahead and avoid the easy answers given on the platform and see how much better the web is without it. I don't understand, what kind questions do you have?




Nobody is criticising the content that is on the site. The problem is an incredibly hostile user base that will berate you if you don't ask your question in the exact right way, or if you ask a question that implies a violation of some kind of best practice (for which you don't provide context because it's irrelevant to the question).

As for the AI, it can only erode the quality of the content on SO.




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