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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by ta1243 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:05AM (#43219921)
The problem with SO is that obsolete answers are never marked as such. You might find the best way to do X in 2015, but perhaps that's worse than finding nothing.
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by addicted on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:26AM (#43220179)
The problem with marking answers “obsolete” is that many code bases are old. You need those answers.
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by BeFlatXIII on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:31PM (#43221497)
Obsolete answers shouldn't be removed. They should be de-ranked and marked as such, but still available without extra clicks.
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by ta1243 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:12PM (#43221885)
And pointed to newer ways of doing it
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by Syntaf on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:23AM (#43220146)
This is especially true for the older frameworks like rails.

Half the answers are for rails 2.0 and the other half tell you to just “install this gem” which monkey patches some part of the framework that has long since been deprecated/removed

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