Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow
dvektor@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s funny how if everyone just went and “read the documentation” like they tend to obnoxiously tell you to do… stackoverflow wouldn’t exist. Personally I go and look for things I can answer if someone asks a question that I know will get obliterated but I can tell they just need some help. I’ll try to answer it before it gets downgraded and they get banned
monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 year ago
Have you ever wanted to do something from the uncharted area? Encountered bad documentation? This is what it’s supposed to be for, not handholding.
Pantoffel@feddit.de 1 year ago
Uncharted is quite subjective. I used SO most when I was starting out in SE. Looking back through the questions I posted, most of them were very much beginner questions that I would just know nowadays or know where to look for. That was what I used SO for. Beginners asking veterans for help. The least of them were due to bad documentation or exploring uncharted territory. As I grew more confident in the field, I stopped using SO more and more. The latest only for best practices on simple problems I don’t want to reinvent. And exactly those cases GPT now solves faster and I’d be surprised if not even better than SO posts.