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The rise of AI and the death of SO is a beautiful beautiful thing. That community is the worst, and this opinion seems to be shared universally by anyone who had extensive interaction with it.

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AI could gorge itself once on (probably stolen) training data from SO, among others, but who will answer new questions now, and where will new training data come from?

It seems you're coming from the school of 'LLM's can only say what has been baked directly into their weights'

This is clearly not the case. You can make up your own programming language and feed it to an LLM and it can reason and answer questions on it.

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