Respect for StackOverflow not selling out to an AI training company despite being their biggest source of training. But their moderation still sucks.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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Serious question here. LLMs trained their data off SO. Developers now ask LLMs for solutions instead of SO. New technology comes out that LLMs don’t have indexed. Where will LLMs get their data to train on for new technologies? You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to extrapolate or understand (for that matter “what manual).
Yes, that is the major problem with LLMs in general. There is no solution aside from "train on another different source (like Reddit)", but then we rinse & repeat.
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I am worried, because there are increasing cases where open source docs are going offline because they can't take the bandwidth costs of the big LLM bots recrawling hundreds of times per day. Wikipedia is also getting hammered. There is so much waste and diminishing returns
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I mean, people who don't want their questions or answers included in an LLM won't use SO. When people want to ask a question and not be shut down or berated, they'll probably end up on HN.
Worrying that forums will dissappear too.
The only answer you'll get are SKUM sponsored bullshit with embedded ads.
Remember before they destroyed the internet? Good times.
A product I use still has an old school forum. The mods asked a while back whether to switch to Discord, and the responses were a resounding “NO”. It’s nice to have discussions organized by topics with descriptive titles that are indexed by search engines and are self-hosted by each organization instead of being centrally owned and controlled.
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Good. That site has been a toxic hole in the ground for a decade or more.
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I think a lot of good information is being scrubbed or controlled and, very soon, what was once free, you will be charged for.
A SO paywall would be ironic, as one of the main reasons for its creation was that experts(-)exchange was paywalled and annoying