The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in

The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in their IDEs, making the popular developer forum increasingly irrelevant.

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
    13·
    3 days ago

    Well, they used to be trained on Stack Overflow.

    In the future they’ll be trained on all your code, as per the end user licence agreement you clicked through.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 days ago

      How valuable will all of that code be without the context added by human conversation emphasizing and explaining aspects of code?

      Sure, this will work for programming languages that are unchanging and dead, but as people begin to need to learn new aspects of programming language this system will spectacularly fail. AI does not beat high quality human conversations about a technical topic, it can only badly summarize them.

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
      1·
      2 days ago

      Well that might suck phenomenally because at least in stackoverflow people (albeit sometimes toxically) point out issues with replies/codes. In GitHub anyone can post any code that may have critical errors. Even worse GitHub wil be full of AI generated code like internet is filled with AI generated videos. So things may start to get weird when AI gets trained on AI code.