Why “stackoverflow” is being discussed
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I have almost never explicitly searched for stack overflow. I google something, top result is a stackoverflow question, I visit. Nowadays that role has been taken by google's AI…
by cylemons · Oct 29, 2026
I recently read the article about the state of stackoverflow and thought that that AI agents need their own stackoverflow. This article seems to be a confirmation of this.
by sega_sai · Oct 29, 2026
"Some of you older programmers may have used jQuery." Oh dear, I'm getting old as the jQuery era was my prime of programming before other activities in life took over. Apparentl…
by niekmaas · Oct 29, 2026
Selling it the Prosus killed it, they don’t have a clue about it and how it should work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange 1. LLMs don’t blame you…
by ho_schi · Oct 29, 2026
I am into computers since 1986. Sources of information like StackOverflow have come and gone, since the dawn of computer networking with online forums on BBSes and similar dial…
by pjmlp · Oct 29, 2026
The current way too write software is too just ask the ai do it. StackOverflow will be soon mostly irrelevant completely.
by mono442 · Oct 29, 2026
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Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers. Created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange network. Stack Overflow features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics, and was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question-and-answer websites such as Experts-Exchange. The website was sold to Prosus, a Netherlands-based consumer-internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for US$1.8 billion. Read more on Wikipedia