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.

What happened?

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    My bets for the future:

    • RTFM
    • Have ChatGPT RTFM
    • Read a book about general principles
    • Ask ChatGPT to apply general principles to its own answer after RTFM, then ask it to double check it
    • Spin up a VM, just try the thing. If it doesn’t work, ask ChatGPT why.

    When everything else fails…

    • Ask a question at any random place (SO, Reddit, Discord, Mastodon,Lemmy, etc.)
    • Feed the answers to ChatGPT and have it summarize them, then double check its own answer