#AI#GenerativeAI#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment#ChatGPT#StackOverflow: "Stack Overflow used to be every developer's favorite site for coding help, but with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, chatbots can offer more specific help than a 5-year-old forum post ever could. You can get instant corrections to your exact code, optimization suggestions, and explanations of what each line of code is doing. While no chatbot is 100 percent reliable, code has the unique ability to be instantly verified by just testing it in your IDE (integrated development environment), which makes it an ideal use case for chatbots. Where exactly does that leave sites like Stack Overflow? Apparently, not in a great situation. Today, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff.
In a post on the Stack Overflow blog, the CEO says the company is on a "path to profitability" and "continued product innovation." You might think of Stack Overflow as "just a forum," but the company is working on a direct answer to ChatGPT in the form of "Overflow AI," which was announced in July. Stack Overflow's profitability plan includes cutting costs, and that's the justification for the layoffs. Stack Overflow doubled its headcount in 2022 with 525 people. ChatGPT launched at the end of 2022, making for unfortunate timing."
@lauranaywendel#stackoverflow is laying off 28% of its workforce.
This may be the first large layoff directly due to AI:
> people asking ChatGPT instead of StackOverflow
> usage & ad revenue declines
> having to lay people off to stay profitable / survive
I navigated through Hacker News today, just to see the layoffs from Bandcamp, StackOverflow and Linkedin via different articles, then I swore nicely and closed the damn tab.
@nixCraft#ChatGPT and #Copilot are this decade’s #StackOverflow for junior programmers, which is ironic considering the latter site fed those services and they’re just remixing
Uwielbiam dwie nowe funkcje w nowej wersji #ArcBrowser od @TheBrowserCompany. Pierwsza to automatyczna zmiana nazwy pliku tuż po jego pobraniu na taką, która jest przejrzysta, np. zmienia nazwę "57496-slowka-angielski.pdf" na "Słówka z angielskiego.pdf".
Druga to jest w ogóle bajka, bo gdy najeżdżam kursorem na link w wyszukiwarce, to automatycznie generuje mi streszczenie. Wpisałem sobie jaki mam błąd z komputerem i najechałem kursorem na wpis ze #StackOverflow, a sztuczna inteligencja wygenerowała mi z tego artykułu, to co mam zrobić. Genialne!
I must have been awesome in my previous life, because I can't believe my luck.
First, I worked at #StackOverflow with people I learned a lot from. Very smart, very humble, very generous people who helped me step up in my career.
Now, I landed on a tiny startup where I also work with people so talented that I can't believe it.
I've just witnessed a designer/frontend dev mock, design and implement a UI so powerful yet so intuitive that it would normally have taken UX researchers, designers and full stack developers to build from scratch. This is all original!
I'm... really not worth it. My only hope is that I'm able to pay it forward by helping other folks step up.
Now that #CloudGlare have hijacked #serverFault, unix, #stackExchange, #askUbuntu and the entire StackOverflow family of sites, CloudGlare are more able to learn the types of work people might be doing.
It seems #StackOverflow has brought a new feature to mimic #Reddit, called "Discussions". As far as I can tell, it has everything that Reddit provides (including the same toxicity)
Wonder how these new AI-based services relate to #SurveillanceCapitalism as learning from your search queries are perfect for Profile AI and Social Credit AI of the future.
If you've ever checked a Python question on Stack Overflow, there's a good chance the answer was written by Martijn Pieters, who has 1.1 million reputation points, the 5th highest on the whole site!
New vulnerability exposed on GCC. @Azeria and Tom Hebb, has discovered a brand new 0-day in GCC. On GCC's AArch64 version, stack protection doesn't detect overflows of dynamically-sized local variables. Vulnerability fixed! But there are a lot of binaries in the wild which has this vulnerability.
#Documentation is key and @Raspberry_Pi basically owns every "competitor" because #Discord is not a valid excuse or replacement for writing actual documentatation because it has inacceptable ToS & is #loginwalled aka. not searchable.
#StackOverflow is this place where a decade after your answer on why user agent sniffing is harmful (and long after the question itself became outdated) somebody will jump in with a comment, defending user agent sniffing as useful in some (unspecified) cases. Completely ignoring your explanation of course.
This is probably one of the best explanations of what metaclasses in Python are and how they are used. Personally, I have no use case for them now, but I can imagine they are quite powerful for advanced libraries and creating APIs.
I'm now the proud custodian of the gemtext.foo domain, which is to be used for #Gemini mirrors of popular sites, like Wikipedia and Stack Exchange, as well as developer sites, like Go/Pub package search and docs.
Of the below sites (or others, reply!), which should I mirror first? Boosting for more feedback is welcome!
Abiding by the results of the poll, I've started on this! Right now it just shows questions, no answers, and it isn't very smart about what site it's on.
They have a steep rate limit on there that I'd have to authenticate against a user to raise. I think just downloading the data dumps might be cheaper, but that might complicate search...
>be me
>Deezer being laggy and terrible for a music app
>Decides to use #Reddit to complain about this
>Comment section ends up being filled with people saying "its working fine for me 🤷🏻♀️" and "I'm comfortable with the UI"
"Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’"
whoa no shit sherlock it's a statistical model that composes answers that are statistically probable, not factual. it's almost like all it does is put a bunch of words that look like an answer next to each other and has zero grasp of what a fact even is conceptually
The average #Stackoverflow with a shitpost-level example and out-of-context answer with an excerpt of code from some corne-case without conditional checking totally predicted this.