[ffjffsfr]

biggest danger for advertising revenue is ChatGPT. I visit it much less often since GPT. ChatGPT is just so much better at answering questions. I feel like I'm 10 times more productive with GPT. No more searching 1000 duplicate stack oveflow questions to find this one answer that accidentally refers to your specific use case. Long time ago I also used to contribute to site, but this was really emotionally challenging because of so many noob questions and general toxic community.

I guess SO has really bleak future both because of competition from GPT and contributor burnout.

[Mistletoe]

Is there a future where people stop using Stack Overflow, so ChatGPT doesn't have answers to new programming issues and questions to train on, and so it is suddenly blind to generating new useful answers?

[CameronNemo]

It won't be such a night and day difference. LLMs can still train on official and unofficial docs (someone also mentioned that LLMs can read source code?). But the results will be worse in the absence of the additional Q&A style content, I would think.

[robertlagrant]

Absolutely. But there's no obvious mechanism to counter this.