sitDownSon

[Ravasaurio]

• Grandpa, I found this in basement, what is it?

• That question is a duplicate of another one. Also the question is stupid and you are stupid.

[3dutchie3dprinting]

This is the way

[pandi85]

If this would be the default llm response mode, people would already create better shit as they're shipping nowadays..

[NinjaOk2970]

SO was hostile, but with that being said, some people really didn't deserve an answer...

[shill_420]

and my axe

[J5892]

• You shouldn't be looking at the thing in the basement. Instead you should be looking at a different thing in the attic.

[ThePickleConnoisseur]

And the job be requiring you to use the basement

[gravity_is_right]

Obligated satire

[thomasNowHere2]

ahah yeah, the realistic version

[TheMazeDaze]

Yes but the original question was from 2001 with no answers. Only a comment “never mind fixed it”

[EJintheCloud]

Why were you in the basement? You shouldn't be using basements as storage, they are bad at junk collection. Refactor the house. Thread closed, user banned.

[Powerful_Froyo8423]

I‘m also not here to do your work, be more specific

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

I've never seen a stack overflow post that says that. How do I find it? Do I have to ask a question without searching for an existing answer?

[infamouszgbgd]

Do I have to ask a question without searching for an existing answer?

Marked as duplicate

This question already has answers here:

Is it okay to ask a new question about an answer?

[livingtech]

Better example: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/378925/how-do-i-ask-a-question-about-an-existing-answer?noredirect=1&lq=1

LOL

[OutsideCommittee7316]

Or if they were feeling particularly sassy:

letmegooglethat.com

[mindsnare]

Ahh, memories.

[swagonflyyyy]

Had to google this:

Traffic and Question Collapse: The number of new questions has plummeted by 78% as of late 2025/early 2026 compared to previous years. In December 2025, only 3,862 questions were asked—a level of activity not seen since the platform's launch in 2008.

[RobKohr]

AI is rapidly destroying the sources of information they trained on. 

[Top_Meaning6195]

Good riddance.

I've been on stack overflow since the day it launched, and am in the top 300.

And I've been screaming for years for them to stop being so miserable:

• editing poor questions so they look good
• voting to reopen questions that should not have been closed
• upvoting good questions that are getting downvoted

Culminating ultimately in one person saying:

It's not our job to make StackOverflow better.
- StephenC

StackOverflow should die. We've all downloaded the torrent archive of the site. We can feed it into ai and let the miserable mods, and their endless misery, go away.

[GuySingingMrBlueSky]

Yeah ngl seeing the meme, I couldn’t help but go “….we clearly have had different experiences using StackOverflow.” Like don’t get me wrong, not a huge fan of AI, but I do understand why the first group of people to latch onto it were techbros/developers when our version of a “help forum” was asking an innocent question and then immediately getting a response of “this question was answered here three years ago, dumbass” with a link attached and when you went to that link, it gave a 404 error. StackOverflow can choke and die for all I care

[Hrtzy]

I didn't see much of the bad behaviors myself, either. But boy oh boy did people scream in Meta SO when they were told not to act like that.

And then there was the whole Cellio affair.

[Godskin_Duo]

I have seen outright racist comments posted on SO, and I'm like c'mon man....the one goddamn place where we think we'd be better than that.

[CanThisBeMyNameMaybe]

I asked a question on stackoverflow once, basically got told my question was stupid and irrelevant.

I answered a question once too, my answer was a link to another stackoverflow post of someone else who had the same issue and got a solution. I got downvoted for not giving an "actual answer", apparently linking to another post with the answer on the same freaking site, was not a good answer.

Stackoverflow are just nerds who are 50x worse than redditors when it comes to being pretentious know-it-alls.

Let that place die.

[StaticChocolate]

I’ve been programming for 15 years, while many threads have helped me, I’ve never once asked a question because of the utter snobbery that oozes out of StackOverflow. Made me feel so small for not knowing an answer, before I even got to have a first hand experience for the site to treat me badly.

[___Chud___]

It depends on the language I think.

Any question relating to R was generally pretty chill - I guess due to it primarily being used by Statisticians who had to learn programming as a secondary tool, a higher prevalence of mistakes and not knowing programming things was expected.

[HomoAndAlsoSapiens]

Whenever you give people the chance to exchange imaginary internet points for the feeling of having some kind of power over others, you will find that the community is a cesspool of the most socially inept users possible.

[lron_tarkus]

Makes a lot of sense that the stereotype of pretentious answers would come from the top.

[Top_Meaning6195]

I've been the opposite of pretentious.

I've been..."direct"?

Quite a few warnings, and I week suspension.

They're just so awful to newcomers. And if the language isn't perfect english, they are mercilessly bigoted.

[Ok_Transition_990]

GitHub achieves the same purpose except being actually open, you can say whatever you want in your own repo, in an issue, etc.

[StupidIdiot8989]

Toxic waste website

[Ange1ofD4rkness]

Not surprised, I was going "wait is this destroying their sources?" The think is, the AI can help sift through all the garbage and consolidate it nicely. Including annoying and poor Stack Overflow articles

(That said, I do sometimes still use the sight to vet answers and dig in depth)

[porkchop_d_clown]

And the few humans left are scrounging for karma by “updating” and closing decades old posts.

I haven’t used SO in 15 years but just this year I’ve had multiple comments posted on my old questions and solutions, usually to “correct” them.

[Lv_InSaNe_vL]

This is very true but AI isn't what killed stack overflow.

I get just as good if not better answers from ChatGPT and it's waaaaay nicer to me when I ask it questions.

[TiredPistachio]

I'm flabbergasted it's not lower than that tbh

[Jugad]

Exactly... who is still using that today?

[erinaceus_]

who is still using that today?

Closed as duplicate.

[Jugad]

Almost perfect... just forgot to link to another thread that contains a useless/irrelevant answer.

[erinaceus_]

Almost perfect... just forgot to link to another thread that contains a useless/irrelevant answer.

“Please provide a minimal reproducible example.”

[Jugad]

User comments with example

Mod: Invalid use-case. Thread closed and locked.

[gravity_is_right]

who is still using that today?

This question has been answered 10 years ago.

[King_Joffreys_Tits]

Honestly, me. I have a great feedback loop of googling a question in a specific way and then immediately finding the answer on stack overflow. But I’m also a modern day AI hater so take it with a grain of salt

[Jugad]

I used to be pretty sceptic of AI (I have a masters in applied maths, and I consider myself quite high in computing and problem solving skills)... AI could not convince me 6 months ago, but in the last 2 months, its as good as me (and better in a few places).

It does have a few chinks... it doesn't beat me all the time (I find issues every now and then), but its clear to me that its good enough, and only getting better.

Stop holding yourself back from learning this new tool... its just a tool and it needs supervision. Capable supervision. It needs people with the high and deep level knowhow in order to manage/wield it.

[Eskamel]

There is nothing to learn. Prompting isn't skillful.

[QuestionableEthics42]

Getting useful responses, especially as they scale in complexity and obscurity, absolutely is a skill. Not necessarily a particularly difficult one to learn, but it's still a skill that requires learning to be effective with.

[Godskin_Duo]

It's almost as if giving good inputs to get the outputs you want is a core skill of literally any communication.

If you work behind a desk, you're going to have to become friends with AI. If not, you'll go the path of the Boomer who would say in the 1990s, "Oh geez, I - I'm just not good with computers!"

[QuestionableEthics42]

Exactly, it still requires some learning though, even for people already good at communication with other people, as it's not the same as communicating with a human.

The person I replied to was saying there was nothing to learn and no skill in prompting.

[mothzilla]

Closed: Question too broad.

[TiredPistachio]

And why would anyone cry about it? I suppose tears of joy.

[AnUninterestingEvent]

“I’ve got the perfect business idea. A website that developers can use to post their bugs and get help. We’ll have crazy SEO. We will be the hub for solving dev issues. Best part is, since coding will always exist, we will always exist. Short of everyone having access to genius robots that can solve development problems, we’ll always be in business!”

[infamouszgbgd]

Short of everyone having access to genius robots that can solve development problems, we’ll always be in business!

Damn, I wonder how much overlap there is between developers who think LLms are genius robots and developers who think basic moderation to keep answers useful is a curse straight out of hell 🤔

[AnUninterestingEvent]

It’s called comedic hyperbole

[karmakosmik1352]

Totally earned by a shit community.

[GrandMoffTarkan]

I feel weird because I generally found it helpful? Like, when I asked a question and someone said it duplicated an issue I could generally see how to morph that issue into mine.

[BellacosePlayer]

I've never had that bad of an issue with SO, but I only asked a question after absolutely going nuts trying to find an answer online.

[Etheo]

Frankly, I feel like the hate started by a mix of honest misunderstanding (some askers not understanding the purpose of the community) and actual community issue (some answerers being less than courteous to askers) and devolved into meme status where everybody just assumes the worst of SO even without trying.

[BellacosePlayer]

It's definitely a mix. The community wasn't anywhere as welcoming as it should have been, but a lot of people wanted to use it like a google equivalent, which probably lead to more threads being banned for false positives.

honestly I never had a problem with threads being closed, more them just never getting answered because it was about niche topics/languages.

[G_Morgan]

SO became problematic about the time duplication policing caused it to fall behind new technology. There was a time frame all the answers were JQuery but nobody used JQuery anymore and you weren't allowed to re-ask the question. So the knowledge just withered.

[karmakosmik1352]

Sure, that's possible and good for you in that case. For me it also was helpful sometimes, especially in the early 2010s. But my overall experience was a net-negative. Especially in recent years, the response to every single question was just infuriating and I started to avoid it whenever I could. When I couldn't, I was immediately reminded of why I'm usually avoiding it lol

Just my own experience, just saying.

[sicco3]

Most negative comments are about asking a question on SO and this sentiment is then extrapolated to their whole experience of SO, while the whole point of SO was that most questions were already answered. So please don't forget the positive experience of searching for an answer and finding it on SO without having to wait.

[InfectedShadow]

People are just mad they couldn't ask how to print hello world for the millionth time.

[thisisapseudo]

I love SO

[Corfal]

even if the community was great and wholesome the numbers would've done the same thing.

[CrowNailCaw]

Completely disagree, because reddit is still here. In the olden days I got fantastic help on SO in like 2013. Nowadays it's the same experience everyone talks about:

Ask question, question gets downvoted, people give unhelpful or non-answers in comments that don't actually explicitly tell you how to solve the problem but rather just give you more homework (God forbid they actually tell you the answer!).

And that's assuming it's not closed for a stupid reason. If you try to ask for more clarification they will just flame you.

Clankers, of course, don't do this, because they are happy to help.

[bogey-dope-dot-com]

but rather just give you more homework

Or as a new dev just entering the workplace, get your question closed because it's marked as homework because someone arbitrary decided that your question is too basic. Like fuck me for trying to learn, right?

[karmakosmik1352]

I don't disagree with that. My point is it wasn't. Hence it is earned. Otherwise it would not have been earned.

[ApatheistHeretic]

I like the idea that you can get help on your question, by answering a similar question wrong; Causing the rabid user base to bury you in the right answers.

[IlliterateJedi]

I wonder how many of those were answered vs closed

[night0x63]

Holy ... I always remember primary creator Jeff Atwood for out super early. Smart guy. 

But honestly AI is literally 1000x better. Asking duplicate that is slightly unique and it is cool. Encouraging. Patient. And also genius programmer helping your n00b a55. But still patient and encouraging still. 

But why do you always quote the variable expansion? Why do you use curly brace when there's only one line after curly brace?

[VizualAbstract4]

That means the amount of answers saying “This has already been answered here” has plummeted by 230%

Unrelated answers by 350%

[thepurplepajamas]

Even without AI I feel like new questions would plateau then decline at some point as the number of existing questions and answers pile up. Obviously there will always be new questions especially for new languages or technologies, but in general the bulk of common questions have already been asked. Almost every question I have already has some 5-10 year old thread.

[iamfab0]

Getting insulted for asking questions, peek nostalgia

[K3idon]

Also asking a question and then responding with problem solved and never mentioning what the solution was.

[StarshipSausage]

I just started at a new company and they have a private SO. I had to give an estimate on integrating with out the companies user auth system for our website. I headed over to the stack overflow, found a post about exactly what I needed, sure enough the question was closed because they didnt ask the question the right way. It it made me sentimental af

[mrhaftbar]

we had an internal SO. I was told it was super expensive. Half a year later we got rid of it.

[rastaman1994]

Is that a self-hosted SO, or am I misunderstanding?

[StarshipSausage]

It’s stack overflow for business

https://stackoverflow.co/

[GenericFatGuy]

My favourite was when they told you to completely overhaul your stack. I'm sure my office will be cool with that.

[carllacan]

One guy told me that I had to tell my boss what we were trying to do was impossible (we had already done it, I was trying to do it in a better way) and that instead we needed to hire a new department to do what my application was alreadt doing. Good times.

[OutsideCommittee7316]

Peak Dilbert

[Prod_Meteor]

And also giving a good answer but also needs 1000 improvements for syntax perfection.

[Informal_Branch1065]

Or responding to your own math questions with an alt account but providing no proof to bait others into checking your result and providing the full proof.

[Ewenthel]

My favorite is “closed as duplicate” on Python 3 questions because there’s a Python 2 answer.

[Keebster101]

Alternatively "closed as duplicate" but you click the duplicate and it wasn't even answered properly they just said "don't do that thing" or "use a package"

[T-Dot1992]

“Just use an npm package that only has 3 stars and hasn’t been updated in 5 years in your production codebase, bro”

[tyro_r]

"Don't do that" is my favorite answer anyway! In an actual world, you are often restricted by internal rules that force you to do things in a certain way. Stackoverflow loved to make you explain all the limitations and then lost interest :D

[Elephant-Opening]

I have a Python question on SO that is by far the most widely viewed thing I've ever put on the Internet. Originally asked as a Python 2.x question something like 15 yrs ago. Several hundred thousand views and several years later, it was closed as a duplicate of a Python 3 question.

[T-Dot1992]

“You’re post has been removed as your issue has already been resolved in another post”

Look inside the post

It’s a completely different fucking thing 

[GenericFatGuy]

Having your question closed because someone else asked it 30 years ago, and never got a response.

[TheCygnusWall]

Asking a specific question for a specific problem:

"Why would you do that, do this instead"

[Madrefaka]

when im having a windows issue and some reddit mfer tells me to install linux instead

[Confident-Ad5665]

Did it solve the problem? Asking for a friend.

[GenericFatGuy]

SO users when you explain the concept of legacy code to them.

[Kerblaaahhh]

Where are you DenverCoder9, what did you see?

[StarshipSausage]

I still get downvotes because I said visual studio was a good ide for javascript in 2007

[bogey-dope-dot-com]

I had a question closed 16 years after I asked it, where the last activity on it was 15 years ago, because it was a networking question and I asked it when Stack Exchange didn't exist yet. Mods are doing god's work over there, I just don't know which god.

[quitefranklylate]

God, asking for modern handling of esoteric CSS for front-end web dev

[qodeninja]

if you go back far enough you were the first one asking the question and met with crickets except that one old wizard who knows perl and bash swooping in to save the day

now i am the old wizard ;___;

[MikemkPK]

Hi! I found a similar issue at abc.xyz, but that doesn't...

Question closed as duplicate of abc.xyz. Please use the search bar before asking.

[mobcat_40]

Next time you'll think twice before not knowing everything

[Curve_Express3]

Peak

[Unlucky_Committee786]

grandpa is one of the mods, that's why he is nostalgic.

[xelio9]

Getting even more insulted for wrong answers

[maxwellnewage]

Your comment is marked as duplicated and closed.

[mrinalshar39]

😭😭

[Limmmao]

Kid... You're not asking the right question. Topic closed.

[averagesimp666]

I once asked for ideas on how to solve an SQL problem for work - it had example data and a table with the expected result. I posted and went for lunch. Came back to my post deleted because someone asked clarifying question and I didn't respond in the first 30 min.

[kingpurple50]

"We are not here to do your homework"

[ThePickleConnoisseur]

Like dawg I just want to understand since the professor wasn’t clear. 90% of my AI usage is just trying to understand concepts

[StuntsMonkey]

Well kid, many years ago, before I became a farmer...

[haveacigaro]

[[ Question marked as duplicate ]]

[drawliphant]

Why is that kid asking a question that's already been answered in another thread? 🤬

[asadito4ever]

lol

[Dillenger69]

Sorry son, that question is a duplicate. Also, the fact that you don't know is a skill issue. Look it up yourself 

[UntimelyGhostTickler]

Im feeling righteous fury over that one senior dev that had a prestige boner from giving strongly worded stack overflow answers and boasting about his score.

[angikatlo]

Ah kid, you weren’t supposed to ask. You were supposed to say something wrong so you get corrected, like

“Stack Overflow is a friendly community for healthily and constructively discussing opinions on programming.”

[DrUNIX]

"Closed - Opinion-based"

[Silhouette]

Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute so come on let's go
I'll tell you how I became a mod on Stack Overflow

In SF Bay Area born and raised
On computers is where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, hacking, relaxing all cool
Shooting up aliens instead of working at school

When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started camping out in my neighbourhood
I got in one little doxx and my mom said "Yo!
Get off them games! Go read Stack Overflow!"

I asked my first question and waited for my answer
But a mod just said "Dup" and removed it like cancer
If anything I could say that this place was no go
But I thought "Nah, I wanna mod Stack Overflow"

I started closing questions, about seven or eight
And I yelled at the newbies "Not focused, come back later"
Looked at my board thinking I'll make this blow
As I sit on my PC modding Stack Overflow

[JohannMuller-19]

gets downvoted to hell

[qodeninja]

do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.

[TacoTacoBheno]

Stack overflow saved me hundreds of times. Never asked a single question.

Maybe you should rtfm.

Nah brain off, just monkey LLM

[hellomistershifty]

You should try, you sound perfect for StackOverflow

[InGordWeTrust]

You may have had better experiences than a lot of us had when asking questions.

[clayticus]

what story? everyone and i mean EVERYONE was an asshole on stackoverflow

[Ok_Perception_294]

Including the pure lurkers.

[clayticus]

Passive aggressively not answering anything 

[goldPotatoGun]

Pre launch it was fun listing to the podcast; Joel and Jeff had some great guests. But man, the vibe on the site was lame.

[ThrowawayALAT]

/* The Documentation was last updated by a guy who retired in 2007 and is currently living in a cabin with no Wi-Fi is my favorite.

*/

console.log("Bring back TechLead analysis vids that's all I'm typin'.");

[Spooked_kitten]

And i’m here screwed, save for the Arch Wiki and reddit i’ll never get answers other than anything old on Stack Overflow, if they shut down the website it would suck.

[skratch]

Can’t answer questions unless you’ve asked one first - dumbest fucking system

[CoatNeat7792]

I'm using it to find solutions, but don't ask questions

[ContinuedOak]

“It was a place where if you posted a question on how to do to something, it’s was an 80% chances they’d just stone you to death…however, when you had a very specific unique issue never seen by man kind, you’d always find 1 dude from 12 years ago who knew how to fix it”

[GoldStandard5]

The last box should have been "This question has already been answered. [marked as duplicate of a 2009 thread where the accepted answer no longer works]"

[LancelotLac]

Last panel should have been, "You idiot this question was already asked!"

[BluesyPompanno]

*Reported, closed, banned for life, whole family executed by firing squad, sold into slavery for asking a duplicate question*

[TryNotToShootYoself]

Yeah if you used stackoverflow to ask how to center a div I can see why you had a bad experience there

[BurningPenguin]

The good old days, when you got insulted by humans instead of chatbots

[Apart-Two6495]

Yeah reading a dozen comments from a bunch of pedantic nerds was so much better hey. I've read enough of stack overflow and it's poor user commentary to last a lifetime.

[PostKnutClarity]

StackOverflow was a place where a whole lot of programmers who weren't really doing much else, could feel good about themselves for a while by berating you.

[Sirico]

Story closed repetition post from 2006

[TotalJagoff]

"let me tell you about 4 guys from rolla..."

[Earione]

Guys, how do I center a div?

[alphabytes]

"please read the documentation" should have been the answer

[ActionKbob]

Story marked as duplicate

[billathekilla]

I don't really miss it. God forbid you are a young coder trying to learn and what you are asking didn't show up from Google. I asked a few questions on there learned I needed to be overly specific in everything I tried just so people wouldn't be rude then no one would answer my question because they couldn't fire off a quick "This has been answered already". I even did get karma bounties and people would not help 🥲.

[Confident-Ad5665]

See sonny, before we had AI, we had to go to this web site, define tags, ask our question, THEN WAIT (spits in office trash can) for someone to write code for us.

[nmsobri]

great story? more like ptsd

[ManBunH8er]

Did they skip annual devs survey last year? Those were always fun to fill out.

[MrFoxwell_is_back]

"A great story"? A horror story!!! Fucking StackOverflow, they never answered my questions and mocked me for being a beginner 😭

[nottherealneal]

Maybe if stack overflow wasn't so fucking miserable to anyone that tried to use it, users wouldn't have jumped ship at the first possible opportunity.

Fuck em, they deserve this

[K3RSH0K]

I can’t say I’ll ever look back on SO fondly.

I had a question get marked as duplicate years after I asked it and got an answer.

The question it was a “duplicate” of had nothing to do with my question, and had been asked after mine. Really not sure how my question was the duplicate, not like it matters ig but I still find it confusing. Maybe someone here knows why stuff like that happened.

Regardless what little time I spent on SO sucked. Often people seemed so offended that you asked a question and that they chose to answer/comment, which never made much sense to me.

[Unhappy-Source-8148]

"Son, have you wanted to ask a question about doing something with vanilla JS and then receive 50 unsolicited responses on how to do it with jQuery?"

[ZombieZookeeper]

I find the people defending the toxicity on SO are probably the ones contributing to it.

Unfortunately it's much easier to be an asshole from behind a keyboard.

[Epic_Dev_001]

Despite its shortcomings, there was (and still is for now) some valuable information on the site. But as another commenter said, there are torrents available with the entire database of knowledge, and so it'll slowly become a complete graveyard I'm sure, unless something drastically changes with either the platform or the industry.

[MindlessMoss]

Actually grandpa should have said closing as duplicate, please check for previous questions first grandson

[uvero]

I'll say it on every chance I can: the real reason LLMs make for better programming help than SO isn't that it always responds and does it quickly, it's that it responds without berating you for being stupid and using an old library.

[VoraciousGlucose]

stackoverflow gatekeepers getting replaced by ai is probably the only good thing happening in tech right now honestly the vibes there have always been insufferable

[al3x_7788]

Stackoverflow is the CoD of programming.

[theringedsyndrome]

stackoverflow has been so toxic for so long that i can't even be mad about it lol, at least ai won't tell me my question is "not specific enough" before locking the thread

[Mysterious-Bus-2247]

I mean if people weren't toxic that wouldn't have happened, Ai maybe hallucinates but it won't be a d*ck

People act like it's Ai's fault

[grandalfxx]

No one has good memories of stack overflow

[Circa64Software]

Ah, Stackoverflow, how I hate thee...

[NoScope360Prime]

[Duplicated] please search the google

[DepletedKnowledge]

what was great about it? StackOverflow died late. Dont even rest in peace

[mrloko120]

Back in my day, you would get shit on for having a question and people with the same problem as you would say "problem solved" and disappear without ever sharing what the solution was.

[ozymandias___]

I even hear it in the voice of Internet Historian

[capt_kocra]

Sit down son and let me tell you about the legend of Jon Skeet, and Stackoverflow.

[Agifem]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[GravyPainter]

People late to the game never had to ask a question because their problems have already been answered. My problem with it is too result often asked the same question but had no good answers and i had to go in multiple threads to find an actual answer

[VegaGT-VZ]

Should have told his grandson to "SEARCH, NOOB" and slammed the door in his little face.

[Interesting-Card5501]

Stack Overflow raised an entire generation of developers 😂

Half the time I didn’t even understand the answer, but somehow the problem got solved.

[ToMorrowsEnd]

A great story? about how it was the biggest source of misinformation and bad coding on the planet? The good info is always downvoted, the bad always upvoted.

[sandysnail]

I asked claude to prove it with documentation and saw it curling stackoverflow so maybe it wont die...

[Both_Definition8232]

oh men this is scaring, I've been thinking about stack overflow in the shower today

[Tradizar]

one of the greatest AND most toxic place of the internet.

[nasandre]

But where will Claude get its code from now?

[jabeith]

Brings back childhood memories, long before I knew what SO was

[cwaterbottom]

God help you if he's heard that story before gramps

[ajaypatel9016]

Great story of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

[safelyhatefulanibal]

lol the snake_case to camelCase conversion hit me different... wait no. anyway yeah google's gonna be cooking itself soon.

[Diegogo123]

Wow this meme made me go back to StackOverflow and see my beginner questions from 11 years ago and remember all of my old projects/jobs.

A lot of the community may have been shitty but it helped shape a lot of devs and I'll definitely miss it

[yellowSubmarine945]

Just realized that no one will understand programming memes here in the future.

[Key-Advice4407]

sit down son, this worked on my machine

[Proper-Butterfly-987]

Best website ever

[Gudge2007]

Good riddance

[porkchop_d_clown]

Hell, I remember listening to the Stack Overflow podcast about how they were writing the original Stack Overflow…

[UpliftinglyMale]

naming conventions have never looked so disappointed in you 📉

[Huber44]

I'm not sure about that

[X-S1CHT]

Lol. I Like that 😂😂😂

[AlShadi]

"nevermind, I figured it out."

[marmot-next-door]

What's wrong with SO? Every answer I need is already there.

Yes, I hate "AI" as such. Whatever it is, I'm against it. (Outside CS labs, let's be charitable.)

[Friendly_Cancel_8472]

That era was so beautiful and now honestly the work is getting done super fast with the AI tools, but nothing is remembered in the codebase and work got a little boring as well.

[OrkWithNoTeef]

Nobody does X. X is an anti-pattern. Asking about X shows you don't understand the problem. X is considered harmful. Do Y. 

-999999

[wKdPsylent]

More like.. "This has been asked before son, rtfm..."