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Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Stack Overflow has a CEO? WTF for? It's a repository of information. All the LLMs have already ripped a copy of the site, so where were they planning to generate revenue?
I hope someone starts a version and integrates it with activitypub and then users can donate towards the hosting costs.
Stack Overflow is supposed to be the wiki of developers, not a fucking business. I hate these greedy fucks. "let's make money from other people's time and effort" 🤮🤮🤮
That will become necessary soon, since their "business model" lost it's meaning after the LLM's
Lol I doubt it. LLMs are useless for the kinds of questions stack overflow is useful for.
And no SO means worse LLMs. Chatgpt relies on scrapes of SO, reddit, forums and GitHub discussion pages.
And the scrapping stage already happened. A new one will be useful only after enough human-made content is added, or it a major change in tech happen.
It's not like ChatGPT is the only LLM. GPT is pretty broad and general. Remember that MS has Co-Pilot which is literally entirely built on GitHub's codebase knowledge. Different data sets will produce different kinds of useful predictors.
I've had great success with LLMs troubleshooting my code independently without needing to consult a peer.
It's easier than looking on StackOverflow because it already crawled the answers there and it's been programmed to drop the sass unless you ask it to be sassy specifically. All the knowledge without the elitism.