The problem with stackoverflow is simple: it eschews it’s core use case to be something unnecessarily autistic.
Instead of being a platform that encourages those with experience to mentor and lead, and those without to seek experience, without punishment, it takes the opinion that “dumb questions are the ones that have already been asked and it’s the responsibility of the newbie to know if their question has already been asked.” It seeks to be the training set for its replacement rather than be its replacement.
Then a new product comes around to support the core use case newbies want more directly:
Yeah, of course we fucking left. Because surprise, if you’re constantly learning, you’ll always be a newbie at another thing. If SO had been an actual community, it would merged with an LLM rather than being eaten by them.
Instead of being a platform that encourages those with experience to mentor and lead, and those without to seek experience, without punishment, it takes the opinion that “dumb questions are the ones that have already been asked and it’s the responsibility of the newbie to know if their question has already been asked.” It seeks to be the training set for its replacement rather than be its replacement.
Then a new product comes around to support the core use case newbies want more directly:
Yeah, of course we fucking left. Because surprise, if you’re constantly learning, you’ll always be a newbie at another thing. If SO had been an actual community, it would merged with an LLM rather than being eaten by them.