Re: “The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead”

Lynn McGuire writes:

“The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead
   https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-134
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“Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data  at the time suggested that the answer is likely “yes:”
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“June 2021: Stack Overflow sold for $1.8B to private equity investor,  Prosus. In hindsight, the founders – Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky – sold  with near-perfect timing, before terminal decline.
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Unreal.

It's not the LLM or AI that made Stackoverflow jump the shark. They simply  failed to achieve sufficient mind share to be able to withstand the natural  factors that work to collapse every social media platform that employs  content moderation. Stackoverflow's content moderation policies pissed off  their most productive contributors, so they all left, and there wasn't  enough garbage left to support what's left behind.
If SO grew big enough before their loss of mindshare they might've had a  chance to carry on by inertia, as a steaming pile of flaming crap. Case in  point: Facebook. But they didn't. Goodbye.