Comment by npodbielski

> Put simply, Stack Overflow’s new niche is the trust built by its old community and their expertize.

This is just dead man kicking. This will be less and less valuable thing as all sort of info go out of date.

But if it this, and IT WILL go out of date, what will be new learning data for all of those models?

Previously with SO people just enjoyed helping other people. But if they will be helping primarily multibillion dollar "AI" companies, then why would they? If nobody will be doing that then how this knowledge will be shared? There is open source projects and docs but they are blocking stuff more and more and some point I wont be surprised if you will have to log in into Debian or Arch Linux system to be able to read those docs.

But then if those companies and OSS will be not adding to training data what will? Will it be that programmers will be just writing new code for llms, for the money till they will make themselves obsolete?

Or at some point those "AI" companies will use anything they can to get ahead of the competition, even if this is against contracts or the law?

The longer I think about the future the more grim it looks.