Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.

What happened?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    18·
    1 year ago

    ChatGPT has no knowledge of the answers it gives. It is simply a text completion algorithm. It is fundamentally the same as the thing above your phone keyboard that suggests words as you type, just with much more training data.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        0·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it gives you the answers you ask it to give you. It doesn’t matter if they are true or not, only if they look like the thing you’re looking for.

            • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              not for solving technical problems

              One example is writing complex regex. A simple well written prompt can get you 90% the way there. It’s a huge time saver.

              for generating prose

              It’s great a writing boilerplate code so I can spend more of my time architecturing solutions instead of typing.