They were and are an excellent resource.
Is it inevitable that traffic would decrease as questions are answered? Has traffic gone somewhere else? Has AI replaced it?
Is it inevitable that traffic would decrease as questions are answered? Has traffic gone somewhere else? Has AI replaced it?
Now, AI kinda replaced for me, it's copilot first, then ChatGPT if copilot is not enough, then google/bing if ChatGPT is not enough and maybe finally SO.
Conservative figure from my side would be 15-25% less stackoverflow in a regular day.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Now I'm sure that ChatGPT probably scraped StackOverflow, perhaps using the very same answers I got from StackOverflow, but combined with other answers from other sources resulting in the instant answer. That does not necessary mean AI will replace StackOverflow, it just means that people wouldn't ask redundant questions in StackOverflow anymore, just questions that AI can't solve.