I think you're underestimating how badly it taught them. I see a lot of developers (when interviewing) that are unable to reason about code.
Lot's of people learn how to cook by following recipes, but they don't try to get work in catering or running restaurants. That requires a different level of understanding.
SO was the coding recipe book. It was fine for hobbyists. Not professionals.
As a senior developer I have no idea how I'd get an AI to autonomously keep a small subsystem maintained. If I was replacing junior developers, that's what it has to do.
Everybody in my team gets to own something. What you own depends on your capability. You learn by doing. No dogsbodies doing busy work.
Oh &*+# ! It's Chet!
One of Bill Paxton's unforgettable roles.
Honestly SO fuelled the rise of the cut and paste developer. I won't be that sad to see the end of it, and the LLMs that scraped it soon after.
"New ChatGPT with Ads!
Giving you that Google feeling once again. "
Armies on paid personal generating content?
I see absolutely no problem with that.
Just wait until there's no stack overflow to scrape.
Yarp.
No luck catching them swans then?
So it's not dogs and cats this time. Ok.
Investors are interested in projects that start making money quickly, and wind is pretty good at that over other power infrastructure. Trump is going to be fighting the free markets that he holds so dear.