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by monk_grilla 19 days ago
> not all of us did that. For many good reasons, too.

This isn't really the point of your comment, and for that I apologise, but I still haven't gotten used to speaking about what we "used to do" in the past tense, as if we are in a post-programming world...

We are already starting to speak of the habits we used to have (or not have), how things used to be done back in the day (1-2 years ago).

I don't think you're wrong to do so. I find myself saying it sometimes too. Just an observation about the weird world we find ourselves in.

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Objectively, the usage metrics at Stack Overflow are showing that it is already dead. Very few people are still accessing it for any reason. While programming might not be in the past, Stack Overflow very much is.
For what it’s worth, I was talking in response to the original commenter who was talking in past tense, I was merely responding in kind :)

I would argue that SO is basically “done”, though. For better or worse.

I still write code by hand. I use LLMs too. Weird world for sure.