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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by porcoda on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:11PM (#46483272)
I regularly use Claude and friends where I ask it to use the web to look at specific GitHub repos or documentation to ask about current versions of things. The “LLMs just get their info from stack overflow” trope from the GPT-3 days is long dead - they’re pretty good at getting info that is very up to date by using tools to access the web. In some cases I just upload bits and pieces from a library along with my question if it’s particularly obscure or something home grown, and they do quite well with that too. Yes, they do get it wrong sometimes - just like stack overflow did too.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by cyral on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:15PM (#46484484)
The amount of docs that have a “Copy as markdown” or “Copy for AI” button has been noticeably increasing, and really helps the LLM with proper context.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by inferiorhuman on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:38AM (#46485267) 

   they’re pretty good at getting info that is very up to date by using tools to access the web
Yeah that's a charitable way to phrase "perform distributed denial of service attacks". Browsing github as a human with their draconian rate limits that came about as a result of AI bots is fucking great.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by immibis on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:45AM (#46487890)
You know DDoS attacks are illegal, right? If you have proof that OpenAI is DDoSing your site, go sue them for millions of dollars.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by inferiorhuman on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:42AM (#46496257)
Ah, I see you have a JD from OpenAI.

I don't run personal sites worth millions of dollars. I do, however, use sites like Sourcehut, DigiKey, Github, Mouser, Farnell, etc, etc, etc. that have opted to put everything behind bullshit captchas because of the DDoS (nee AI) bots.

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