Gone with the LLM

For 15 years Stack Overflow has been the online community where software engineers go to ask questions and get tips from fellow coders.?

Now Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar has spotted a worrying trend.

Engineers are using LLMs to get answers.

What's even more galling is that many of these new models were partly trained on Stack Overflow's information.

It's not only Stack Overflow, but Wikipedia has also been affected.

The new products emerging from this generative-AI boom are putting the future of these online forums in doubt.

The chatbots answer questions clearly, automatically, and often pleasantly — so humans don't need to deal with other humans to get information.

Elon Musk recently called it "death by LLM."

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