Stack overflow is dying!

Ever wondered how people used to solve errors in the Stone Age? I mean before Chat-GPT existed and AI began debugging and writing more than half our code. Well here’s something called Stack overflow for you. Did a bug annoy the hell out of you and no matter what you did or try it never worked, well someone with the same exact issue as you has probably posted a solution on Stack overflow.

Stack overflow isn’t just a simple question and answer type of website. It is a community. A community of all types of developers including beginners to professionals learning from each other using this one website which has helped out many developers in starting with their development journey.

A graph showing how many questions posted on Stack overflow on a monthly basis, Image Source: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/

But look at this the latest traffic stats gathered by someone. The number of monthly questions posted is declining by the year. It has even gotten to the point where the number of questions are literally as same as when Stack overflow just started.

The AI which is now giving you personalised solutions to all your coding bugs, which would take hours to debug is now debugged within seconds, because this AI was trained on trillions and trillions of publicly available resources one of them including Stack overflow.

So how will people ever know this site exists if they don’t try and solve the error on their own? How will people ever know how to think and ask questions and learn from actual experts instead of blindly giving an AI a prompt and trusting it. AI is exceptional I agree but it doesn’t know half the stuff about build a production-safe application, it doesn’t know the basics at all, all it knows is just answer the user query and give the code. Funny how the AI that was built upon these websites is now getting used more than the actual websites.

So learn to code, learn the process and use websites like Stack overflow to actually know the actual procedure for building applications and not just blindly following AI for every single thing.

Remember this is not just for learning how to code it will make you think, look at different opinions, actually be part of a community of developers working together to fix each others’ problem.