StackOverflow vs ChatGPT

Well chatgpt reduced my usage of SO with around 90%.For the simpler questions it is quite ok. As in write me x in language y where those are inputsSO is left only for really hard or niche one.

ChatGPT and Discord communities replaced SO for me. It's way faster to get answers.

ChatGPT provides far more value than StackOverflow currently. It's not just trained on SO answers but all of the manuals/help pages, Github issues and forum posts. In addition you can continue a conversation. No rigid format or gatekeeping like stackoverflow. I don't see a real use case for Stackoverflow now. If I want to ask humans, Discord/IRC channels are far better option.

The meme isn't that we're asking questions ourselves on SO, but that SO contains answers to questions that are difficult to ferret out of the documentation. If you don't know what to call something, or need to know common practice rather than every possibility, or comprehend an error message, it's a lot easier to get it from somebody else who has already solved that problem.Of course somebody has to ask the question first, but with StackOverflow, one person can ask it, and

ChatGPT is replacing SO for me. Just had an experience yesterday where the first few answers were not quite what I needed (they weren't incorrect, just didn't meet my requirements), so the ability to ask follow-up questions to narrow down the answer resulted in a solution in minutes which could have taken hours of searching and testing. (Still had to test, of course, and one advantage of SO that ChatGPT doesn't have, is that you can be pretty sure a reply with lots of upvotes will

time and again when I search for an answer online the stack overflow is the best answer when -I have an error text about a popular tool - I would say about 50% of the time SO is the best, the rest of the time is either some blog post or more likely an issues thread on github for the tool.I really know a lot about the subject I am asking about so I know exactly how to ask to get a really good example bit of code doing what I want to do. - about 90% of the time SO gives the best answer. Of c

In my opinion SO is not very useful. The longer I code less likely I search SO. I prefer to read docs, search on issue tracker or just read the source code.I think SO is mostly for "noobs", people that are asking how to add two numbers or use jQuery plugin. For me, it would be more useful if answers describe alternatives, big O and more context. Most answers just suggest copying few lines of code. Even for juniors, it is not good and just slows down growth.

So true. I feel like I used StackOverflow so much when I started programming, and now it’s rarely even the most useful result on Google for the question I’m trying to answer. I struggle to imagine a scenario now where I’d want to rely on fossilized SO instead of GPT cross-referenced with official documentation.

I can't pinpoint the exact moment but I noticed I've been finding more and more answers in the official documentation, GitHub issues and project source code. Maybe Google got better at indexing docs or people started writing higher quality documentation but where I used to land on SO multiple times a day I will now visit it a few times a week at most. Also when the mentioned sources hit a search result it's almost always better quality (SO has gems for sure, but I often encounter

I think you're onto something. I remember myself, as a young developer and a fresh university student mostly reading programming forums or browsing newsgroups. Even more so official documentation for a programming language or a library.Only know, having 10+ years of experience behind me, I find myself stumbling upon SO because I know exactly what I'm looking for. In other words, my path to finding the answer is shorter. So it's just a time saver.I find issues on Githu