[isoprophlex]

Well, I have all the sympathy for the SO people who are stressed out over losing their jobs... but at least a LLM doesn't chew me out when I ask a question that's remotely similar to one asked 7 years ago. And I like the low-latency, interactive rubber ducking experience way better than the slower turnaround on a SO question.

[aurareturn]

So how will the LLM answer your questions in the future if SO is greatly diminished?

I guess LLMs can learn directly from documentation websites. But there is no human feedback on correct solutions or better ways to do things that SO provides.

[Moldoteck]

It'll get better and will be able to answer more questions based on sourcecode and documentation?

[ofrzeta]

I've seen support forum sites that have integrated LLMs to automatically generate answers. I doubt that feeding that back into LLMs will improve quality in the long run.

[isoprophlex]

Well, yes, and somewhat cynically also through eg. OpenAIs effort to pay programmers in low wage locations to create high quality train data related to programming in general (thus paying them to automate themselves out of a job)

[zaphirplane]

LLM do no answer, but kind of autocomplete

[Moldoteck]

Debatable, but true, still, my point holds, it'll be able to autocomplete bettereven without direct hints / dataset from SO, esp taking into account GitHub & github issues

[zaphirplane]

Without the question text and the words explaining the answer ?

I think those words provide a lot of context for the LLM to get to that specific response

[balls187]

Wait Stackoverflow employees chewed you out?

[ramon156]

Not the employees, the community

[isoprophlex]

Exactly; I have nothing but sympathy for the affected people but SO-the-community was on the way out anyway. I'm almost 40, I understand, and can tolerate to some extent, someone sometimes going into Linus Torvalds mode.

But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most.

[balls187]

> But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most.

Hostility towards new users is an issue across most communities, see Reddit and Discord.

Perhaps it has less to do with Linus Torvaldisms, and instead a generational gap between. Afterall SO has been around for 15 years, and it replaced the god awful Experts Exchange.