Stack Overflow
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I still like Stack Exchange websites, mainly SO. I still think they are relevant”
“that's not the point of SO or any of the SE sites.”
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“I do think it's very unfair of many of you who are claiming SO was hostile”
“it is a damn good website, if only for the archive”
Caveats and dissent
“it's gamified interface made it impossible to win unless someone was ultra-competitive”
“the demise of the SE network (not just SO) owes a good bit to this rigid application”
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Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“It sucked, for everyone.”
Threads where it came up
- Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time 11 mentions
- StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month 6 mentions
- What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph 5 mentions
- Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI 2 mentions
- StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site 2 mentions
- We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole 2 mentions
Also written as Stack Overflow for Agents, StackOverflow for Agents, StackOverflow. Data: stack-overflow.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“I still like Stack Exchange websites, mainly SO. I still think they are relevant”
“StackOverflow is particularly sucsceptible to this”
“here's the related skill”
> It wasn’t a “help me!!!111!” site, it was an exchange. That's exactly what it turned into, though. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/320536/what-is-the-best-triage-response-for-give-me-teh-codez-questions
“it's gamified interface made it impossible to win unless someone was ultra-competitive”
“the demise of the SE network (not just SO) owes a good bit to this rigid application”
“It was dying well before AI”
“This seems so poorly thought out.”
“Be advised that it already exists: https://agents.stackoverflow.com/”
“There already exists a Stack Overflow for agents”
“i got stung by exactly this.”
“The company repeatedly attempt to force shitty AI-powered features on the community”
“Stack Overflow was reducing the ability for people to curate content”
> would've been a "newcomer track" It's there now. Too late I guess. https://stackoverflow.com/help/what-is-staging-ground
“there's now a "StackOverflow for Agents"”
“They were too degraded to be worth using 5 years ago compared to the hey day”
“Looks interesting.”
“A bit lame, agents should be able to just pay with x402”
“Won't be for long.”
“AI is just a tool, much like StackOverflow.”
“one of the many SO dramas”
“Moderation got increasingly aggressive on SO as time went on.”
“I still feel sour about the site. Talk about burnt bridges.”
“They closed my 16 year (!) old question”
“closing questions is an impediment to Number Go Up”
“To me, it looks like more like Digg from the old days.”
“Take a look at traffic to established sites such as Stack Overflow”
I love that I don’t have to look thru SO looking for a problem that’s kind of like the one I’m having. I have a problem solved based on my exact code taking my entire code base into account. And if I want a biting sarcastic review of my many faults as a software developer, I can ask for that too.
“Stack Overflow is dying because of it.”
“Didn't mean it was dead tho”
“I use LLMs in the same way i used to used stack overflow”
“Note that Stack Overflow has already ceased to exist.”
Yes. The problem is that the model was questions open by default, so you had exposure to the question before it could be properly be considered for inclusion. The Staging Ground fixed this, but too little (only applied to a small random sampling of questions) and way too late. It's considered part of your responsibility, as someone answering questions, to understand the standards for closing questions (https://meta.s
1. They overwhelmingly are not moderators, and they are not doing moderation by closing questions. This is curation, and duplicate closures overwhelmingly are done by subject-matter experts: users with a gold badge in one or more of the tags originally applied to the question. The requirement for such a badge is based on answering questions: > Earn at least 1000 total score for at least 200 non-community wiki answers
“what a braindead site, so glad I left years ago”
“I found myself contributing less and less”
“that's not the point of SO or any of the SE sites.”
“the reputation gamification was incredibly poorly thought out”
“I do think it's very unfair of many of you who are claiming SO was hostile”
“The volume of Stack Overflow was never going to be sustainable and was not reasonably reflective of its goals.”