[qtzfz]

The fact that this post by Prashanth Abd al-Rahman (SO CEO) is so downvoted makes me think he's onto something. This is like when artists cry because of how good Midjourney is and they'll have to switch careers. If programmers are complaining about AI it's because it's good.

[JumpCrisscross]

> downvoted makes me think he's onto something

This is a bad heuristic, strengthening your priors based solely off rejection.

Nobody questions LLMs can write code. The question is whether Stack Overflow has a place in that future. The community’s rejection, and CEO’s ham fistedness, suggest the data he has are the data he’s got. Which makes him uncompetitive vis-à-vis e.g. GitHub or any IDE.

[bitL]

No, the AI can only replicate what some other human figured out before and wrote down. Right now LLMs aren't really creative problem solvers. Therefore he needs a bunch of idealistic/stupid/unaware devs to keep sharing novel solutions that can be used to improve whatever AI he wants to have and sell it to companies which will fire those same devs that figured out those answers.

[devnull3]

> Prashanth Abd al-Rahman (SO CEO)

The name is Prashanth Chandrasekar or am I missing something?

[iLoveOncall]

Damn, you're right! My career of StackOverflow question answerer is done!