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.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Was so popular. Past tense.

    It was popular before the current ridiculous moderationlevels. Now people just go there for the older content, since all of the newer stuff gets closed as ‘duplicate’ despite not being a duplicate.

    • Feyd@programming.dev
      49·
      2 days ago

      That’s a ridiculous assertion. The moderation and complaints were the same a decade ago.