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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.


And to add on to your experience, I find I’m also too impatient to ask the internet for help. The harder and more annoying an issue is, the more motivated I am to finally solve it, meaning having to wait for someone to potentially answer, maybe the next day if ever, is not very appealing. I’d rather spend hours on the issue and solve it myself, which still means it’s solved faster.