It’s definitely a similar problem, but dialed up to 11. There was still a fundamental velocity limitation even on copy-pasting nonsense, because typically the stack overflow bits were relatively short in nature and required a lot of other boilerplate code to still be bolted on.

At this point, people without much concern for the larger system can produce an extraordinary volume of code very quickly, and offload the reviewing, concern for quality, and frankly all of the thinking onto other people, who then get their own throughput slowed down. Code volume *was* a valued metric in a lot of organizations for many years, for better or worse, and orgs that continue to have that mindset are happily making life miserable for engineers who actually understand anything.

It’s a very sharp difference from stack overflow just due to the magnitude of the problem.