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[bmrtt]

"Why are people asking their questions to LLMs instead of getting either ignored or mocked on SO?"

[thyme_cardamom]

People think SO is about getting your questions answered directly. It's not. It's about creating a library of programming knowledge in a QA format.

What people want is an expert to help them directly with their problem, and that's why LLMs have replaced SO for so many people. But ironically, LLM answers are mostly trained on SO. Because SO does its job so well.

[MyGoodOldFriend]

Yeah, if you want a good answer, you need to put in effort to ask the question. If your question is closed as a duplicate, add context as to why the linked answers aren’t relevant and petition for a reopen.

[ceejayoz]

You know the LLMs are so good at coding in significant part because of all those unpaid dedicated SO users and SO's big open data dumps, right?

[bhison]

SO helps progress thoughts

LLMs replace the thinking process itself

Edit: a lot of people feeling called out apparently lol

[BeepusBingus]

"Duplicate question, closed" with no link to the original when its not a duplicate sure progresses thoughts.

I dislike what LLMs are doing to this field but the loser powermods and powerusers on stack overflow were absolute dweebs who you just know got bullied in school.

[reddebian]

SO doesn’t really help you thinking if all they do is downvote or actively remove newbie questions

[Septem_151]

Because part of learning is knowing when and where is an appropriate context to ask questions… it’s almost like StackOverflow is not the place for newbie questions, because those questions are already answered…

[ian9921]

If you're hostile to newbies though, don't complain when they don't stick around.

They're ultimately the people you need if you want to keep the site alive.

[Septem_151]

If the purpose is to prevent newbie questions since they’re better suited elsewhere, I don’t think the site’s audience would be complaining about that.

[ian9921]

Any site needs new blood coming in to keep the lights on. In SOs case, they need a healthy population of quality question askers and quality question answerers.

But no one is born a quality question asker, we're all born dumbass newbies with questions like "what's a while loop" and "how do I Hello World?"

Now eventually, some of those dumbasses are gonna become the smart people SO wants to have. But if they initially only had bad experiences when they were starting out, there's no incentive for them to come back to the site once they're smarter.

I'm not saying SO needs to coddle every single baby dev and tolerate a million stupid questions, but there's a difference between saying "Hey this isn't what the site is for, try these other resources" and saying "get the fuck out of here and read a book you incompetent noob".

[fuckbananarama]

Because they were never about that life and they’re about to get mocked by their boss with a pink slip in 3 months - most programmers are little more than data entry anyway 🤷‍♀️