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Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.


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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Yeah it gives you the answers you ask it to give you. It doesn't matter if they are true or not, only if they look like the thing you're looking for.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

An incorrect answer can still be valuable. It can give some hint of where to look next.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

@magic_lobster_party I can't believe someone wrote that. Incorrect answers do more harm than being useful. If the person asks and don't know, how should he or she know it's incorrect and look for a hint?

[–] cat@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if they refer to coding solution they’re right : sometimes non-working code can lead to a working solution. if you know what you’re doing ofc

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Even if you don't know what you're doing ChatGPT can still do well if you tell it what went wrong with the suggestion it gave you. It can debug its code or realize that it made wrong assumptions about what you were asking from further context.

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