[bananamogul]

Having experienced the SO culture, I like to think the culture caused it - schadenfreude - but it was probably inevitable given AI.

Even if SO was the most wonderful friendly place in the galaxy, would you rather post a question and wait hours for a response, or get one instantly?

[inigyou]

If the answers were better, you might.

They weren't. The most common answer was a hyperlink to an unrelated question followed by everyone being banned from answering your question

[Esophagus4]

I could see SO being helpful for more niche questions where one guy somewhere knows the answer from experience or he wrote the framework.

But then over time, those will be absorbed into LLMs anyway, so…

[democracy]

Very new, beta stuff - AI can be helpful but too creative sometimes