Comment by jrflo
13 days ago
I knew that stack overflow must be suffering because of AI, but I find it hard to believe that questions asked per month has gone from 200k pre-chatbot to (what appears to be) ~1k. Although, I suppose I have not gone there at all in the last 4 years...
Clicking through to the query for the first chart, I see the peak of ~300k in May of 2020, and it was ~3k in April of 2026 (the last complete month). I’m flabbergasted.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/193252...
For perspective, 300k per month is one new question every 9 seconds.
3k per month is one question every 15 minutes.
Nah.... surely not. [looking at the link] Holy shitsnacks... I gotta be reading this wrong. Is it really dying? Like seriously, wtf.
The Ghost of Expert Sexchange gets its revenge.
It makes sense to me. There's literally no use for Stack Overflow anymore. LLMs, for all their faults, are a far better way to get answers to coding problems.
It's just rare to see something accelerate to zero like that. I feel like most dying products have a fade out over time where there still remains a niche use for them, they don't nosedive to almost nothing.