Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.

What happened?

  • Greg ClarkeEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    What point are you trying to make? LLMs are incredibly useful tools

      • Greg ClarkeEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        not for solving technical problems

        One example is writing complex regex. A simple well written prompt can get you 90% the way there. It’s a huge time saver.

        for generating prose

        It’s great a writing boilerplate code so I can spend more of my time architecturing solutions instead of typing.