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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Some of the "duplicate" questions that I have seen on Stack Overflow are phrased entirely different than the supposedly "original" one. It's like they expect me to brute-force their entire fucking search index before publishing a new question. I don't have that much patience or time. 

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Unless they're being rude about it you shouldn't take that personally, they're doing exactly that job for you and it's useful to make easier to find contents for other people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Stackoverflow gets quickly steamrolled by AI.

We're not 100% there yet, but the writing on the wall is there. Just my opinion, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd still chose someone else's stack overflow question every time over AI. AI is a last resort

That said, I have never asked a question on stack overflow as it's not exactly an inviting atmosphere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

StackOverflow initially had an interesting idea of putting metrics on things, and unfortunately humanity's penchant for "what gets measured is gamed" was amplified and devolved into a hive of HOA Karens looking for infractions of the rules.

I'll bet that if you "relaunched" a SO-like system and removed all human-visible "points" or "scores" you could achieve a less toxic environment. The only "ranking" is implicit based on your topical subscriptions.

Then again, you could "relaunch" the "relaunch" and "AlphaGo-ify" a bunch of AI agents to compose the dialogs and threads without any human interaction at all. I guess we're on our way already to building Culture minds.