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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-11-23 at 19:39

It has been noted before, but I wanted to quantify my impression of a discernible decline in SO activity (through Nov 2024). So, I did a quick SEDE query for SO questions (PostTypeId = 1) per month (and pro-rated Nov). This does not bode well for SO. Not pretty.

This downward trend pre-dates LLMs, but seems to have accelerated since. But a lack of quality answers on platforms like SO will diminish the training data used by LLMs (which are already infuriatingly bad for new or low-volume topics).

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Written by Robert Ryan on 2024-12-25 at 06:49

An article discussing these trends with links to other assessments of the issue. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-reports-of-stackoverflows-fall-exaggerated/?ref=pumpingco.de

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Written by Matt Massicotte on 2024-12-25 at 11:27

@robertryan This is interesting. I have definitely stopped answering and voting, though I do occasionally end up reading.

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