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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Stack overflow still have users? These days it rarely shows up on my search results and when it does the answers are always outdated by several years.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I guess I've moved to the part of my career where Stack Overflow isn't that helpful, but I've found a lot of utility in searching issues on GitHub and Reddit posts.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

I'm right there with you. It's nice to know it's been there if I needed it. I don't find myself there very often anymore and when I do it's often to compare official docs to other ways to approach something or because the getting started section of the official docs felt weird or wrong.

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I'm grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But are they losing the first positions because they're losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd say the former.

Many queries don't find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I'm having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

When I do find relevant answers, lately they're all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.

Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.