AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow

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Jan 12, 20262 mins

Many are also tired of being treated like idiots by other users.

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Since 2008, millions of developers around the world have found answers to their programming questions on the popular platform Stack Overflow.

Recently, however, activity has declined significantly, and in December, only 3,862 questions were asked on Stack Overflow, which is a 78 percent decrease on an annual basis.

According to Dev Class, the decline is primarily due to the increased use of AI, but many users have also grown tired of being treated like idiots when they ask questions on Stack Overflow.

In this context, it is worth mentioning that many of the AI responses come from Stack Overflow itself, as companies such as Open AI have signed cooperation agreements with the platform.

This article first appeared on Computer Sweden.

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