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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah for generating prose, not for solving technical problems.

[–] Fingerthief@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

You’ve never actually used them properly then.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not for solving technical problems

One example is writing complex regex. A simple well written prompt can get you 90% the way there. It's a huge time saver.

for generating prose

It's great a writing boilerplate code so I can spend more of my time architecturing solutions instead of typing.