Honest question, how do you afford to live without working?

Oh good, maybe my company can stop paying for Graphite finally.

I've done quite a bit of async programming and I can't quite figure out what people are complaining about here. Best I can tell, they just don't understand what async functions actually are.

Imagine thinking the borrow checker is just "worse GC." Please at least learn about a language before you try to spread crappy memes about it.

She's sad because she's realizing he's just a script kiddy and not a real programmer.

I had a pretty good grasp on it when I was coding it full time, but now I wouldn't feel very confident using it. The language simply requires you to keep too much of it in your brain.

It's somehow both a nu lang and an obsolete lang.

Yes, but they're not the ones producing all of the content. Again, that's produced by volunteers.

Yeah, that's a fair point. After I posted my previous comment, I realized it probably wouldn't work since the entire point of SO was to create canonical answers to canonical questions. But how do you decide what "instance" gets to have the canonical answer to a given question? Having a central authority host everything makes it a heck of a lot easier.

I think a big problem was how new users had to unlock things like the ability to comment. Probably a lot of new users really should have added comments to previous questions to clarify things, but instead the site tells them to create a new question first to get reputation points. So they do, but what they want isn't really a unique question, just clarification on a previous question.

Once you get enough reputation to be "in," suddenly the whole site opens up and you can do everything you need to. But a new user has to get to that point, and that is daunting if they're new to programming.

I also think that SO selling their data for training AI really rubbed a lot of old timers the wrong way too. If they had not given in to that, I wonder if the decline would have been nearly as sharp. There were users active there daily, finding questions to answer and evaluating others answers. Now there really aren't.

This is their fault. I blame them for it. And I celebrate their downfall because they were shitty humans.

Who is the "they" in this? The volunteers who contributed to the site? StackOverflow isn't like a company or anything. No one is paid to answer questions there. They're all people who were working hard to make a collection of common questions with the best possible answers, and trying to uphold a certain standard for the content there.

Based on your comment, I think maybe we as a group just don't deserve stackoverflow. If we really are all now turning to LLMs instead (which are not in any way "decentralized") to get a bunch of statistical bullshit spit at us instead of, you know, the actual right answer, then maybe we deserve what will happen next.