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This will have interesting implications for the LLMs as well, since SO is a wealth of training data. In my experience, LLMs are pretty useless when it comes to helping me with newer, faster-evolving, experimental tools and libraries, which is not surprising. But, if the SO community really atrophies to the point that a lot fewer people are bothering to answer questions, there won't be another centralized resource for answers. Perhaps that just means balkanized communities like random Slack channels will fill the gap, but those aren't search-indexed and I'd bet getting them all into training corpi won't be as easy either.

Maybe the future involves LLMs asking questions on something like SO when it routinely fumbles a particular topic. People could get paid to answer them and provide more training data. Who knows at this point