upvote

points

by embedding-shape15 hours ago |
comments
upvoteby j_maffe15 hours ago|
next
[-]
I'd call it significant that the number of questions halved within one year following the release of ChatGPT, the biggest relative or absolute rate of decrease in the timeseries.
reply
upvoteby ipaddr14 hours ago|
parent|
next
[-]
Right around the time Google rolled out new search results removed many information based sites.
reply
upvoteby khalic14 hours ago|
parent|
prev|
[-]
"How AI precipitated SO's downfall" would be a correct title then
reply
upvoteby pydry15 hours ago|
prev|
[-]
Add it to the list:

- the downfall of junior devs

- bad hiring market

- layoffs in practically every sector

theres a ton of things where AI took credit for a trend that had already started before it started being even halfway capable.

reply
upvoteby gwerbin12 hours ago|
parent|
next
[-]
I think if you won't even admit that AI greatly accelerated these trends, you're in some kind of denial. There's no reason to believe that we would see a rapid coordinated decline in all of these things at the same time without AI, and strong reason to believe that we would see it with AI. So we have a model that makes testable predictions, and data strongly consistent with those testable predictions, in the form of an acceleration of existing downward trends. What more do you want?
reply
upvoteby pydry11 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
>I think if you won't even admit that AI greatly accelerated these trends, you're in some kind of denial

I think if you actually look at the data for these trends rather than asking AI what it thinks you might experience some cognitive dissonance.

>There's no reason to believe that we would see a rapid coordinated decline in all of these things at the same time without AI

It's called hiked interest rates. The economy is not doing so great for several reasons but the main one is wars.

reply
upvoteby gwerbin7 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
Hiked interest rates cause a decline in Stackoverflow activity?

My answer doesn't change. Against the background of other phenomena already causing various trends, we see acceleration of those trends consistent with a testable hypothesis about the effects of AI adoption in industry. In most fields of science that's good evidence in favor of the model.

And no I didn't ask AI about it, this is my own opinion and my own perspective.

reply
upvoteby khalic14 hours ago|
parent|
prev|
[-]
People love simplistic narratives, i usually don't mind but this is just ridiculous. AI hate is gently overtaking AI hype as the most stupid thing around
reply
upvoteby pydry13 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
AI hype is still a million miles ahead and a million times dumber, especially thanks to online astroturfing.
reply
upvoteby khalic13 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
By volume sure, a part of the anti AI crowd is pretty extreme though, death threads, bomb threads, etc.
reply