From 8da2a19228ab5a4615515e9c36ff22a06537bda1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 18:43:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] phrasing tweak --- content/blog/the-downfall-of-stackoverflow/index.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/blog/the-downfall-of-stackoverflow/index.md b/content/blog/the-downfall-of-stackoverflow/index.md index 7508c5c..15da05a 100644 --- a/content/blog/the-downfall-of-stackoverflow/index.md +++ b/content/blog/the-downfall-of-stackoverflow/index.md @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ _Quick note: This isn't an "AI bad" rant. AI tools are a useful thing to have in This post was inspired by a post on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345) that linked to this [StackOverflow data](https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph). -My kneejerk reaction was that the rise in AI and its code analysis capabilities have caused the downfall of StackOverflow. We can see a peak after a gradual decline in early 2020 (COVID bedroom coders?) which then returns to a roughly normal level by 2021, before starting a stark decline into obscurity, very much accelerating at the end of 2022. +My kneejerk reaction to the data was that the rise in AI and its code analysis capabilities have caused the downfall of StackOverflow, but I needed some data to back it up. + +We can see a peak after a gradual decline in early 2020 (COVID bedroom coders?) which then returns to a roughly normal level by 2021, before starting a stark decline into obscurity, very much accelerating at the end of 2022. {{< graph id="stackoverflow-trend" type="line" title="Stack Overflow Questions Over Time" height="500" csv="stackoverflow_questions_over_time.csv" labelColumn="Month" dataColumn="" dateFormat="2006-01" >}} {{< /graph >}}