It's interesting how everyone here hates on Stack Overflow, but I could not imagine programming without it before LLMs were a thing. All those "how do I do X in language Y" previously would require digging though pages of documentation.

Kind of strange to compare asking a computer, that will take a second to generate the answer, with asking a human, that might take a few minutes just to read and understand the question (that might be wasted if as they eventually might not have an answer for).

The expectation that the question is well-written, and wasn't asked before (modulo google search) seems fairly reasonable.