The death of Stackoverflow is here and they are afraid.

Hey everyone!

I post this to the general chat, since its not a topic that may interest so many, but its kinda important if you code.

Stackoverflow is the biggest user to user help platform from coding, meaning if you need help with coding, you ask it there, and also browse the infinite threads about various coding problems.

BUT with the release of chatGPT almost all questions that are there, can be answered by the robot, so almost 90% of their pages are useless now, or not efficient to open since chatGPT can answer the same, even better.

So for this reason stackoverflow BANNED users who replied to threads with code and answer from chatGPT (Maybe because if their community gets to know the chatGPT, they will leave stackoverflow) and as of today, there is a big warning if you open stackoverflow, that you are NOT ALLOWED to post anything from chatGPT.

There is even a video that talks about this:

Stackoverflow, thank you for the lot of helps, but this is it for you, end your career with pride, not with hate.

I really don't think they banned ChatGPT because they were scared. ChatGPT sometimes produces some absolute garbage code. If people are just asking ChatGPT and then copy/pasting the answer with no knowledge of how that code works, that's really low value. And potentially garbage code. If I wanted a ChatGPT answer, I would have asked it.

Plastic Bowl said:

I really don't think they banned ChatGPT because they were scared. ChatGPT sometimes produces some absolute garbage code. If people are just asking ChatGPT and then copy/pasting the answer with no knowledge of how that code works, that's really low value. And potentially garbage code. If I wanted a ChatGPT answer, I would have asked it.

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I do think 95% of stackoverflow users still not discovered the chatGPT.

And by scared I obviously mean scared to lose traffic

razharov said:

I do think 95% of stackoverflow users still not discovered the chatGPT.

And by scared I obviously mean scared to lose traffic

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Yeah I understand what you mean. I don't think they are scared of that. ChatGPT as it is right now isn't a good replacement for StackOverflow. One day, maybe. But it's not there yet.

I believe that is more related to code optimization and interpretation, chatgpt can give you the answer but could be the 40 lines resolution that will make change almost you're all code, but some one that knows will advice you to change 15 lines of your code with and alternative solution and with better optimazation, so is more to avoid to post generic responses that might not really help, that is my point of view.

It's only going to replace StackOverflow for those people that simply copy-paste the accepted answer.
When I go to StackOverflow I don't stop at the accepted answer, I check some more and the comments as well because many times people add some valuable notes and caveats in the comments.
Also, ChatGPT cannot find solutions to new problems that have not been answered before, so StackOverflow is not dying any time soon.

Whats wrong with using stack, ChatBH0MLE1V, AND your brain, the best of all binary worlds?

Only till twitter's neural link though lol

First it was Google now Stackoverflow LOL, ChatGPT wont replace neither of them

ChatGPG has its place but it doesn't have any idea what it's doing

Here's an example I just tested:

Create me a Rust program with Tokio threads that reads two numbers from different APIs. The program should print the sum of the numbers inside a different thread to the console.

And this is what it came out:



Now this might look impressive, but it's just plain wrong, it won't compile. It suffers from Variable Ownership ( a Rust language specific feature) mistakes.



And if you know how to spot those and fix them, you already know how to write the program I asked it for. So... yeah.

It's also super easy to see that it doesn't really understand anything. Check this out:

I have a program snippet written in Haskell. I don't understand what it does, can you please explain it to me? Here is the code:
```
fibonacci :: Eq a => [a] -> Bool
fibonacci [] = True
fibonacci [_] = True
fibonacci xs = (head xs) == (last xs) && (fibonacci $ init $ tail xs)
```

Now, obviously this isn't an implementation of the Fibonacci sequence, it's an implementation of a palindrome checker function. But just because I misnamed the function, it got threw off:



All that said, ChatGPT does have value when you are trying to figure out new things (for example, you have never used threads before) and you want to see how the overall thing might be structured. It can also help when you're trying to learn a new lang, as it can explain some syntax you might not be familiar with

I don't think chatgpt can't give too good answers, answers will definitely be wrong a lot