I deleted my account, and stopped visiting it at least five years ago.
Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions got closed as "duplicate" even when they were not.
You can find questions such as "My DNS isn't working", with answers like "Have you tried disabling your firewall?" and it's feels like the blind leading the blind, like PHP developers fixing installations via "chmod 777".
LLMs are terrible, but stackoverflow is definitely worse.
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I deleted my account, and stopped visiting it at least five years ago.
Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions got closed as "duplicate" even when they were not.
You can find questions such as "My DNS isn't working", with answers like "Have you tried disabling your firewall?" and it's feels like the blind leading the blind, like PHP developers fixing installations via "chmod 777".
LLMs are terrible, but stackoverflow is definitely worse.
Exactly. Some stackoverflow users keep complaining about AI slop but they fail to realize that human slop is much more rampant.