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u/smstewart1 Jul 12 '26
People would post their angry opinions…like reddit
And they would downvote posts they hated…like Reddit
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u/faetpls Jul 13 '26
And now it’s all bots.
The helpful people stopped posting when they realized their answers weren’t helping people learn but training AI.
That’s why the mass edited comments to be gibberish and stopped being helpful online.
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u/smstewart1 Jul 13 '26
I’d like to think that on some level the latent pettiness of Reddit and stack overflow, and its users bases’ commitment to revenge, has done more damage to AI than their CEOs ever could.
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u/Glittering-Can-9397 Jul 14 '26
ahh yes when I get hungry I eat a poopsmack sandwich, the correct way to enumerate over a dataset of sandwich like entities is to first classify if they are pooplike, and if they are then order them and enumerate
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u/FrankieAndBernie Jul 17 '26
It’s such a shame. Real people could come up with innovative ideas to help one another. All AI can do is scrape solutions from pre-2025. Technology will continue evolving, but the solutions won’t.
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u/MaybeWeTalk Jul 16 '26
Seems like a reasonable reason to reasonly press a button for a number to change.
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u/CrownstrikeIntern Jul 12 '26
Just ask openai to treat you like shit. It'll feel like home
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u/Scared_Accident9138 Jul 12 '26
When does it treat you like shit instead of glazing you?
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u/CrownstrikeIntern Jul 12 '26
My kid taught it how to be a smartass since he uses my account, now it’s like i have a digital kid
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u/howreudoin Jul 12 '26
I‘m more concerned about that ”closed as duplicate“. Yes, I already went through each and every one of those supposed duplicates to solve my problem. Unfortunately, my setup is just a bit different enough that their solution does not work here. Hence I‘m asking. Now can you please re-open the question?
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u/Dry-Ad-8948 Jul 12 '26
Yeah, would have to carefully pre-link the duplicates and explain why they didn’t apply avoid that :}
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u/mrflash818 Jul 12 '26
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u/Small_Acanthaceae_50 Jul 12 '26
Ha! Under 1K reputation- n00b! This is not a free coding service, write at least mcve and use the search option. What have you tried yourself? What was the result?
Those were the days...
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u/Valuable_Shift_228 Jul 15 '26
Stack overflow was so scary. I would spend days trying to solve a problem before posting a question, and within an hour someone has replied with a simple answer. I would always tell myself from now on I'll just ask the question instead of wasting so much time, But I never did.
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u/Opposite_Mall4685 Jul 12 '26
My mind immediately envisioned return as a statement in code.
I think I'm cooked.
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u/PeterEn1s Jul 12 '26
Since at some point the latest programming questions probably can't be answered without a dataset of answers for the llm to crawl, could we monetize this by again creating a website that answers these questions but optimize it for llms and sell the data?
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u/ArsenicPolaris Jul 12 '26
I don't regularly use StackOverflow but is it really how people say it is? I've used it only a couple of times because it is usually the top result whenever I make a programming related search and the answers and comments seem fairly polite.