@cwebber this isn’t really new. For all the things on StackOverflow there was a huge domain of knowledge that was just not on there.

For most of my corporate developer life the knowledge/bug fixes would not be found on public forums but in internal collective knowledge, documentation or simply knowing a person in the same field. Most of this was not public domain.

The biggest issue now is that those firms commit their group knowledge to LLMs and we will not get it back.

@alexwild @Merovius sure. Look when the US has sorted itself out, we can talk. Until then this “oh look other countries have problems as well” is just deflection and your bigger problem is none of us are going to trust you.

@futurebird can I ask : is this a “recent” phenomenon? I don’t really recall this behaviour except as an outlier when I did CS (which was a while ago…)