AI Killed Stack Overflow (and why that sucks)
The first time I asked something on Stack Overflow it took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to ask the question. I had to format the code somehow in that little input box, repro it, explain what I'd already tried, provide output etc. After all that work someone closed it as a duplicate. I was confused and unhappy to say the least but also, I didn't realize at the time, I was learning.
Needless to say, but nobody learns like this anymore. Now you go to ChatGPT or Claude and ju