News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data. Parent comment

Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by TZubiri on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:31AM (#43220928)
Still, much of ChatGPTs success in code can be owed to SO success in generating a mountain of useful googleable archives.

See stacksort: https://xkcd.com/1185

Remember that the objective of SO is not to provide answers to users who post questions, but to provide answers to users who google questions.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by giancarlostoro on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:08PM (#43223137)
My frustration is that I google questions wind up in SO and a mod links to an irrelevant but related question from 20 years prior.
[ Parent | on HN ]