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manbitesdog on Aug 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?

According to their own 2024 Developer Survey [1], 61% of people are using AI. I guess it's way less effort to ask your custom tailored question in a dumb way to an AI and get a nice response instantly, then fall back to SO only as a fallback.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ai/#1-ai-tools-in-the-d...

palata on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

One question being: are people leaving SO because they are using AI, or are they using AI because they are fed up with SO?

I would guess probably a mix of both?

jononor on Aug 27, 2024 | [–]

Google no longer surfaces SO answers as much also plays a huge role.

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