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I disagree with this. SO helped me with Python, Postgres, and SQL countless times.

If we are going to consider the value of SO, I would argue that it is a cornerstone.

I've found the Postgres docs almost always more informative, clearer, and more correct than anything I find on SO. The only exceptions are for "how can I achieve this goal" questions, instead of the much more common "how can I implement this idea" ones.

Most useful info about Python from SO are pointers to the official docs in content-free answers. What is very valuable, because the docs are hard to navigate, but not what is expected.

About Haskell, C, or Perl, I currently ignore SO links, it's just less bother to go to the next result, and way more likely to get something useful.

But for Javascript, .Net, MS SQL, and a lot of other random stuff, SO is unbeatable.

I find some topics are much better than others on SO. It's pretty useful for Python and SQL, from my experience.

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