For techs and techy stuff.
For anyone interested: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/399619/our-partnership-with-openai?cb=1
It's a shame because the Stack Exchange network is the best place to find good answers to questions and if the good contributors are disgruntled over this (and they probably should be) it will be the death of the site.
I haven't read into it too far but it would be better if they only allowed it for new questions - so people know what they're getting into.
But..but... OpenAI is committed to socially responsible AI :(
Jokes aside, stack overflow is about as shit as a toilet overflow. The entire thing has been a dumpster fire for years
Fair, way too often I find a question I'm interested in but it's been closed because it's "off-topic" and there's a really petty discussion in the comments, and then they're like "ooh this conversation is getting too long, let's move it to another page entirely", but "we also don't like questions and answers with links in them"
how do I do X on python?
top answer: do it in Rust instead
question closed due to it being a duplicated of a question from 15 years ago (linked solution uses a deprecated library no longer compatible with current Python versions)
My favourites are the ones where they were closed as a duplicate, the only response is absolutely dripping with snark almost berating the OP for not searching the issue first, but that one SO post is the only relevant thing that shows up in a Google search
When the question specifically links the "duplicate" and explains why that isn't relevant to the current situation.
If I'm honest, chat-GPT has replaced SO for me as my first go-to. If I can't figure it out from chat-GPT, then I will dig into SO and other resources. It isn't always correct but it is more often correct than accepted SO answers in my experience. At least for Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, and general Linux questions.
That said, the accuracy may be because it has ingested all of the SO answers. If SO doesn't continue getting new, useful answers, maybe the quality of chat-gpt's answers will also suffer.
I'm sorry but I'm struggling to feel for the Stack Overflow contributors here. SO has always been such a toxic environment that it's essentially become a meme. Yes there used to be a few people who valued their karma/points there but could anyone argue that anyone went there for 'the community'? I've seen posts recently on twitter from people even with high scores on stack overflow saying that they've not visited or contributed for years. People just want effective solutions efficiently. I recall that in the past no one was complaining on behalf of SO about all those shitty recycling sites like expertsexchange, only that they didn't like the interface. Is the difference now that it's expected to be popular?
expert sexchange... There's a site I've not heard about in a while!