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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by Grombobulous on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:34PM (#48960829)
On top of that, the AI will take a plain no-context error message and give it a college try to figure it out. A lot of times it will be right.

On SO that experience is going to be “we closed this because you didn’t form a good question.”

And of course, that’s true, but it demonstrates the wide gulf in user experience between the two platforms.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by inigyou on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:19PM (#48961315)
If SO wants to be good, it will encourage a back-and-forth: "are you trying X?" but it doesn't want to be good. Private equity doesn't understand going concerns.
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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by smackeyacky on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:43PM (#48963193)
I think I’d like to see a site where people posted their chat results that ended in a successful resolution. Just for isolated bugs or library use questions. Would not be useful for a lot of the internal work I do but maybe saving those internally would be useful inside a company
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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by the_lucifer on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:22PM (#48963804)
Or another LLM layer that takes a chat and formats it into a StackOverflow style Q/A post
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