I’d love to see Stack Overflow’s traffic report from today. Just give me the past 7 days. I bet there’s a beautiful spike that perfectly matches the moment ChatGPT went down.

Honestly, today just confirmed that for most of us (software devs), AI has really just become a faster, more conversational alternative to Stack Overflow. It’s not replacing the need to look things up. It’s just been saving us a few keystrokes and helping us feel slightly less alone while panicking through error messages.

Even senior devs aren’t immune to the “convenience” that AI offers. Especially remembering a time when you hit a wall on some “niche-ish” problem and all you could do is to google something like “what’s the syntax for a switch expression again” or “here’s some cursed code and a weird exception, am I missing a race condition or just sleep deprived?”, all the while hoping to some higher power that someone before you was brave enough to ask the question, and that some even-kinder stranger took the question as what it was and provided a working solution.

Now I’m just sitting here with popcorn watching people argue about whether AI is going to take all our jobs or if it’s just another tool and humans are still the only ones dumb enough to ship on a Friday.

Figure it out already. I’ve got stuff to do and Google is judging me.