[genedan]

Since ChatGPT relies on Stack Overflow and similar sites for training data, it's only really going to be as good what's already on the Web.

So it can't replace these sites in their entirety, because if those sites decline, so will the quality of ChatGPT responses. I suppose there will be some kind of mediocre equilibrium.

[jalapenos]

I'm not sure that's true. If ChatGPT reaches the point it can fully comprehend entire open source codebases and docs, of the tech that's the basis of a given question, it'll be able to guess solutions without human middlemen.