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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by n49o7 on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:58AM (#46497381)
This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

Perhaps the antidote involves a drop of the poison.

Let an LLM answer first, then let humans collaborate to improve the answer.

Bonus: if you can safeguard it, the improved answer can be used to train a proprietary model.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by renrutal on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:00AM (#46498803)
> This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

I'm more amused that ExpertsExchange.com figured out the core of the issue, 30 years ago, down to their site's name.

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