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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's not that developers are switching to AI tools it's that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.

[โ€“] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Ironic, they're being closed as duplicate.

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