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Manchuck<p>I don't think AI is killing <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a>; instead, it's the attitude of the users on there. I have seen many users attack people who ask questions. I see questions get downvoted because they are duplicates, or it's 'Why the hell do you want to do that?' When I see questions asked on Reddit or Discord, I notice that people are more welcoming and willing to help developers with their problems. I think that is because those platforms foster building communities. SO really dropped the ball there</p>
jj@::1$:~<p>The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a><br><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/</span><span class="invisible">the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/</span></a></p>
Claudius<p>Detail about the <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> export that I did not spot. Who can tell me what's wrong?</p>
IBBoard<p>A new error of Stack Overflow 😑</p><p>Also, there's apparently a lot of developers who I REALLY can't understand: </p><p>" 83% [of developers say] they use or plan to use AI tools in their development process this year, an increase over 2024 (76%). However, the lack of trust in AI tools also continues to rise with 46% of respondents saying they do not trust the output of AI, up significantly from 26% last year."</p><p>Even if we assume that the full 17% of non-users are in the "do not trust" group, that's still 29% of respondents using it or wanting to use it while distrusting the output! THAT'S OVER A THIRD! 🙄</p><p>Why would you do that to yourself? It's not even like there's lock-in and the product got worse and that's why there's conflicted users. It started bad, continued to be bad, and can't solve its fundamental problems.</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/10/a-new-era-of-stack-overflow/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/10/</span><span class="invisible">a-new-era-of-stack-overflow/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft<p>A new era of Stack Overflow. <a href="https://buff.ly/9Ryw4aw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">buff.ly/9Ryw4aw</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23stackoverflow" target="_blank">#stackoverflow</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ai" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23devcommunity" target="_blank">#devcommunity</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23programming" target="_blank">#programming</a><br><br><a href="https://buff.ly/9Ryw4aw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A new era of Stack Overflow - ...</a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>A new era of Stack Overflow.</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/10/a-new-era-of-stack-overflow/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/10/</span><span class="invisible">a-new-era-of-stack-overflow/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/devcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Christian Mayer<p>I see typical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> answers in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> conversations.<br>Problem: why is A not working? Already tried solution B and C.<br>Answer: please try solution B and C.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a>: Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too</p><p>&gt; Ryan welcomes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IlliaPolosukhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IlliaPolosukhin</span></a>, co-author of the original "Attention Is All You Need" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transformers</span></a> paper and co-founder of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEAR</span></a>, on the show to talk about the development and impact of the Transformers model, his perspective on modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machineLearning</span></a> as an early innovator of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a>, and the importance of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a>, user-owned AI utilizing the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/08/attention-isn-t-all-we-need-we-need-ownership-too/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/08/</span><span class="invisible">attention-isn-t-all-we-need-we-need-ownership-too/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webDev</span></a></p>
The Godot Barn<p>Did you know that we have a "Questions" section on our website to give and get help with <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>godot</span></a> 🤓 similar to <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a>?</p><p>Search by tag, get answers or help other users, completely free!</p><p>Check it out: <a href="https://thegodotbarn.com/questions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thegodotbarn.com/questions</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a></p>
vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦<p>WTF happened to comments on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a>?!</p>
Thomas Schäfer<p>Feature request <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/IPv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv6</span></a> (again)</p><p>First comment 🤦 </p><p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434456/stack-overflow-still-not-reachable-via-ipv6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meta.stackoverflow.com/questio</span><span class="invisible">ns/434456/stack-overflow-still-not-reachable-via-ipv6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a></p>
Trevor McLeod<p>I wonder if using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to perform <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vibecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vibecoding</span></a> is a bit like the mythical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perpetualmotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perpetualmotion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machine</span></a> ?</p><p>If <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s rely on scouring the net, for example <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> , won't there be less to learn from as coding is done using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> ?</p><p>So, how will <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s improve?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a></p>
P.J. Meisch<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> number of questions per month is down to the level of 2008 when they started.</p><p><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1882532/questions-per-month?ref=blog.pragmaticengineer.com#graph" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">data.stackexchange.com/stackov</span><span class="invisible">erflow/query/1882532/questions-per-month?ref=blog.pragmaticengineer.com#graph</span></a></p>
esa<p>Å få en sånn "human verification"-sjekk av <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> nå som de er dypt, dypt i LLM-sørpa er faktisk humor. Jeg forventer at for å passere testen så må jeg overbevise dem om at jeg er en bot, ikke et menneske?</p>
Claudius<p>Gotta say, with all the very clever gamification that has been put into <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> itself, this process feels like the exact opposite. It feels borderline hostile every step of the way. And because we know SO can do better, it doesn't feel like "stupidity" or "carelessness", it feels like "we don't want you here, so we're making this aspect of our business miserable for you".</p>
Claudius<p>... a couple of days later you get an email with a link to their internal platform, (this is where I failed my 5 captchas <a href="https://darmstadt.social/@claudius/114774605975131313" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">darmstadt.social/@claudius/114</span><span class="invisible">774605975131313</span></a> ).</p><p>You are presented with a JSON file with no explanation whatsoever (I reckon that's fine for the audience), but that json file contains almost nothing.</p><p>It you think about the treasure trove of data <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> clearly keeps about its visitors, there's NOTHING of that in that JSON.</p><p>I honestly would have expected better from them :-/</p>
Claudius<p>Gotta say I'm not a fan of how <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/Stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stackoverflow</span></a> handles a <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> request for one's own data.</p><p>First, there's no visible "self service" thing in my account settings, in contrast to what basically everyone else does.</p><p>When you DO find the data request form (<a href="https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">policies.stackoverflow.co/data</span><span class="invisible">-request/</span></a>) they make you fill out a bunch of stuff that wouldn't be necessary if they just offered a self-checkout.</p><p>Then a couple of confirmations (fair, they need to make sure it's not someone else impersonating). And then ...</p>
Grumpy Website<p>Do you even remember why we were making websites in the first place?</p><p>Thanks ethical_haquer for the picture</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Popups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CookieBanner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CookieBanner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SignIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignIn</span></a></p>
BujakiewiczFranco<p>Even though I'm an Arch user, scares me a bit ask in these places 🥶<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>code</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Scripter :verified_flashing:<p>Github und Stackoverflow: Analyse zeigt Historie beliebter Programmiersprachen - Golem.de<br><a href="https://www.golem.de/news/github-und-stackoverflow-analyse-zeigt-historie-beliebter-programmiersprachen-2506-197362.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">golem.de/news/github-und-stack</span><span class="invisible">overflow-analyse-zeigt-historie-beliebter-programmiersprachen-2506-197362.html</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Programmiersprachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmiersprachen</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Github</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stackoverflow</span></a></p>