alt Hacker NewsThis comes some years too late. Who is really using StackOverflow to ask questions? I know that ChatGPT can answer all questions that StackOverflow can answer in a fast, friendly and nearby as correct way. It has limitations, but the most people on StackOverflow are jsut doing the same than ChatGPT, just repeat after other people. All this things will be gone soon.
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As a ConTeXt user I use to ask questions on SO from time to time because (1) the wiki can be outdated or incoherent; and (2) I get lost on the mailing list, which is the other way you can ask stuff or get help about ConTeXt. I don't see ChatGPT or something like that catching up about something so niche fairly soon, though
ChatGPT can provide the same answers SO can because it mined SO as part of its training data.
I still use SO to ask questions. In fact, just asked a question couple days ago which ChatGPT couldn't answer, nor has anyone on SO been able to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79831192/multi-line-titl...
I don't remember where I read this, but will tell this story every time ChatGPT is mentioned as a replacement of StackOverflow.
> I asked chatgpt how do I do X. Chatgpt replied with the accepted answer from stack overflow, thus saving me 1 second. In theory. In practice, what Chatgpt did NOT tell me was that the top voted comment on that accepted answer said "Do not do this, doing X in this way creates a security vulnerability of type Y because of Z"