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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