[sharmila]

Totally agree on the reputation graph being the real asset. I've been shipping apps across iOS and Android for years and the SO answers that saved me were never the generic ones, they were from someone who clearly hit the exact same obscure platform bug in production.

I wouldn't go anti-AI though. AI is great at answering "how do I sort an array in Python", let it have those. Where it falls apart is the messy real-world stuff. I've had AI confidently tell me the wrong way to handle background BLE on Android, which would've gotten my app killed by every Samsung and Xiaomi device out there.

SO could own that dividing line. Let AI handle the commodity questions, use the reputation data to route the hard ones to actual humans who've been there. Mentorship marketplace on top of that. That's not anti-AI, that's using AI to make the human expertise more valuable, not less.