Two years before ChatGPT is shortly after Joel and Jeff sold Stack Overflow to private equity.
replyThe Monica affair was one of the first symptoms.
For those who don't know what the Monica affair was: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/393046/who-or-what-...
replyThe graph is not presenting a narrative, did you mean to reply to someone else who is presenting the "revisionist history"?
replyIn 2023, Stack Overflow had already started making unpopular pro-AI moderation decisions, and in 2024, they started mass banning everyone who deleted their questions and answers in protest. I don't think it's wholly incorrect to say "AI killed Stack Overflow" when the death blow came from crazy pro-AI decisions from the admin.
> The graph is not presenting a narrative, did you mean to reply to someone else who is presenting the "revisionist history"?
replyThe title of this thread is "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph." That's a narrative. At least before the mods change it.
Ah you're right, that's totally on me. I don't know how I missed that
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