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I think StackOverflow will exist and do well. 1st, it is source of information for ChatGPT itself so if there would be no new content then AI is going to implode too. 2nd, very often I skip top answer because it has some edge cases or simply is outdated. The answer comments often highlight such issues. I don't think ChatGPT could be trusted without verification, not in serious programming work.

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I see Stack overflow as one of the problems here.

StackOverflow went along way in killing the Tech Blog, and the number of "right" but poor answers on Stack sites are at an all time high

Often the "best" answer on those sites is buried or even downvoted in favor of an answer that "just works" but may have security issues, maintainability issues, is out dated, etc.

In alot of area's I find Stack answer to be of low quality if you happen to have any indepth knowelege of that area.

Indeed.

They should be renamed to ShitOverflow, because that's how bad the quality is a lot of the time.

On the first point, that is no guarantee that users will stay on the site. The AI is currently only using data from 2021 and earlier as far as I'm aware, and does so without feeling out of date. Before we see any significant signs of the AI imploding due to lack of new information, SO might well be long gone

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