Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    2 months ago

    Stack overflow still have users? These days it rarely shows up on my search results and when it does the answers are always outdated by several years.

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      2 months ago

      Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        I guess I’ve moved to the part of my career where Stack Overflow isn’t that helpful, but I’ve found a lot of utility in searching issues on GitHub and Reddit posts.

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          2 months ago

          I’m right there with you. It’s nice to know it’s been there if I needed it. I don’t find myself there very often anymore and when I do it’s often to compare official docs to other ways to approach something or because the getting started section of the official docs felt weird or wrong.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 months ago

      But are they losing the first positions because they’re losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?

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        2 months ago

        I’d say the former.

        Many queries don’t find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I’m having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 months ago

          When I do find relevant answers, lately they’re all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.

          Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.