[janalsncm]

I just hope they understand the core value proposition of SO is that answers come from people. That is their product.

If you want answers from a computer, you can get them from chat GPT. The best SO is going to do with that is spend a lot of money to repackage it into a feature people probably weren’t looking for on SO to begin with.

I agree there are other indirect applications of ML models than just generating answers. And I hope ML can help to soften some of the “edges” in UX. A lot of that can be done with BERT or even more primitive statistical methods though.

[hathchip]

It's doubtful that ChatGPT would be able to answer so many tech questions, if it wasn't for the existence of SO.

[a_c]

I don't remember which podcast was it coming from, several years ago there was motion to shut down the US National Weather Service, or is it the NOAA I don't remember, because AccuWeather is all people need. No one seems to question where AccuWeather get the meteorological data. It is from the government service

[a_c]

Found it. Turns out it is an audio book by Michael Lewis, The Coming Storm https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coming-Storm-Audiobook/B07F43...

[isaacfung]

I use a search engine called phind. For simple problems, usually I just have to pass in a short description of what I am doing and the error message, and it would find the relevant SO posts and summarize several potential solutions. Half the time one of the solution would work and I dont even have to open the SO posts.