AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow

Re:AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow by oriettaxx on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:54AM (#46598331)

a dead end loop, apparently, applying not just to Stack Overflow but all similar content providers:

A. AI became "Intelligent" thanks to Stack Overflow

B. Stack Overflow collapse due to AI

C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow

Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?

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Re:AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow by anovikov on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:13AM (#46598442)

Human trainers. There are tens of thousands of people doing it full time for AI companies. Their mode of work isn't much dissimilar from answering SO questions. Just in a closed manner.

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Re:AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow by NitpickLawyer on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:36AM (#46599294)

> C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow

> Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?

This take is ~3 years old and already obsolete. For the past two years RL flavours (RLAIF, RLVR, etc) have been driving the new models.

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Re:AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow by oriettaxx on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:01PM (#46603805)

omg, thanks I did not know (I am obsolete, too :(

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