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Stack Overflow with all of its shortcomings was a marvel of the internet at it's peak. People especially in early were chasing karma and anything you asked, you
by kenty 4mo ago
Stack Overflow with all of its shortcomings was a marvel of the internet at it's peak. People especially in early were chasing karma and anything you asked, you were sure to get some answer. Not always right but some answer. While for sure LLMs will give much better answers on average. I feel that it's a piece of humanity we've lost there that should be adequately remembered and the memory cherished.
- throawayonthe 4mo agogetting a wrong answer in a public forum can be great to motivate corrections :p
- theSuda 4mo agoI am also going to miss searching for something, finding a stack overflow thread and noticing that I wrote that answer years ago. :)
- kstrauser 4mo agoThat was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they asked a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
- kstrauser 4mo agoThat was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they searched a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
- mcswell 4mo ago...or I asked the question (and got an answer) years ago, but forgot because I hadn't worked in that programming language in the interim. (That's my excuse, anyway.)
- pjmlp 4mo agoI rather have the myriad of phpBB powered forums that used to exist all over the place, instead of StackOverflow. The irony is that StackOverflow kind of killed them all, and eventually also became a victim of the next wave.