I think they're in crisis because they sold out there community not because LLMs are better. As a developer, if you offer me StackOverflow vs ChatGPT, I'd take StackOverflow any day of the week 100x over.
For simple things GPT gives me the correct answer most of the time. And even when it's won't it's quicker to discern it is wrong than trying to parse a given SO page.
Of course I still use SO for more complex questions.
As a rule, if I can quickly find the answer via SO, then chances are GPT will give me the answer more rapidly.
If I license something as MIT, I personally don't care who uses it for what purpose, hell I don't even care generally that they attribute me. I put it out for people to use. But maybe that's just me.
Really? Hm, I wouldn't. I can use nuance and clarify my answers and have a respectable back and forth (GPT-4 doesn't call me names when I mess up or say something dumb) and arrive at an answer.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
I’ve heard this accusation a lot, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it happen. People call you names on Stack Overflow? Where?
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Marking duplicate. "You should attempt searching before asking such obvious questions."
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or some such ;) You may not come across it personally, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. SO is successful as a QA platform(or was anyway) despite this shortcoming, not because it is a feature and it doesn't happen. If a lot of people are talking about the same thing, maybe people should at least pay cursory attention to the issue rather than "No, it doesn't happen" (Not aimed at you, but there are absolutely comments like this every time this gets bought up.)