Comment by YZF
23 days ago
This was probably a bit later. And those LLMs are trained on SO presumably...
In the earlier days SO was more of a community. I guess the life-cycle of the Internet. I answered a few question back in the day. Asked a few. All in all positive experience. I still look fondly at some of my better accepted answers...
I definitely enjoyed SO at the start. But the site was "gamified" from the start - initially, it was gamified so with some skill and effort you could progress. Gradually the gamification reached the point that any progression required constant effort.
Unfortunately, it's hard to see the Internet having cycles overall. It's been more like a spiral over the last 35 years or so.