I understand Google and Microsoft getting into it as it makes sense as a "better" Google search but for StackOverflow that sounds like they have just given up on their current platform.

Nice choice of logo colors, btw.

Well that explains why they did a 180 on their "no AI" rule, which has the mods in a tizzy.

Who knows, maybe it'll cut back on the toxicity in the sense that you don't have to interact with toxic people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do we have a term for combination of enshittyfication and LLM?

I feel like a better solution is to have a community answer as generative AI to every new question and have folks upvote or downvote it like normal.

That would be pretty easy.

return "Why are you even trying to do it this way?\n$link_to_language_spec\nThis should be closed.;

I look forward to the AI trend fizzling out. It's only slightly less silly than the cryptocurrency trend was.

Good way to kill your own platform, the whole point is to ask questions to real people