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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)

submitted 5 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/devops@programming.dev

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The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in their IDEs, making the popular developer forum increasingly irrelevant.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Question... what were all those AI tools in IDEs trained on?....

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Well, they used to be trained on Stack Overflow.

In the future they'll be trained on all your code, as per the end user licence agreement you clicked through.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

How valuable will all of that code be without the context added by human conversation emphasizing and explaining aspects of code?

Sure, this will work for programming languages that are unchanging and dead, but as people begin to need to learn new aspects of programming language this system will spectacularly fail. AI does not beat high quality human conversations about a technical topic, it can only badly summarize them.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah, good luck fixing issues with "intelligence" based on MY code.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Well that might suck phenomenally because at least in stackoverflow people (albeit sometimes toxically) point out issues with replies/codes. In GitHub anyone can post any code that may have critical errors. Even worse GitHub wil be full of AI generated code like internet is filled with AI generated videos. So things may start to get weird when AI gets trained on AI code.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, either trained on or they do a web search when you ask them knowledge questions. Gonna be an interesting one, when all the actual knowledge sources have disappeared.