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jesse_b

01:18

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08:51

Q: We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!

Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect of the application, from the infrastructure to the code. We built a monolithic application that s...

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terdon

19:26

@jesse_b I wonder if that's true. There has indeed been a dip, noticeable in questions and answers, but I don't think it was that clear and the image seems a bit off. Where is that from?

jesse_b

@terdon I'm assuming that was meant to reply to me? If so I found it on some random facebook group

terdon

@jesse_b yep, sorry and thanks for the pointer. Yeah, I really wonder if that's real. I expect reality to be pretty close to that, but it isn't quite as clear cut as evidenced by the fact that SE are still running around like headless chickens trying to arrest the downward trend and not really knowing what has caused it.

I am very familiar with the equivalent graph for number of posts and the decline began long before chatGPT. Maybe views only started declining then, but that seems unlikely.

jesse_b

it's also incorrect on when chatgpt was released

terdon

for posts, genAI seems to have perhaps accelerated the trend, but it was there long before

jesse_b

It was released in nov 2022

terdon

19:33

This is a very good analysis by an ex SE employee: jlericson.com/images/SO_posting_2023.png (and the source of the image I posted above)

jesse_b

you're 2 for 2 today @terdon you posted the link to the image again

terdon

Oh, FFS!

jlericson.com/2023/06/26/problem_ai.html

grrrrr :)

jesse_b

I think people unfairly vilify chatgpt answers

I haven't really been posting many answers lately but the last several I did post I ran them all through chatgpt first. I agree that you shouldn't be allowed to post an answer written by chatgpt if you are unable to confirm that it's legitimate, but chatgpt often finds mistakes in my logic, optimizes things I never would have thought of, and writes things in a way that I would be unable to

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