> For instance, researchers found a 16% drop in activity on the coding website StackOverflow one year after the release of ChatGPT. This suggests AI assistance may already be reducing person-to-person interactions in some online communities.
I don't get why this is a bad news. It meant that most likely these questions would have been duplicates and/or very easy, as ChatGPT could fix them.
My issue with SO is on the opposite side of the spectrum. By the time I am ready to post a question after having done my homeworks, I know it is either an unfixable bug or out of reach for most if not all users, and the probability of getting an answer is very low.
Most of the time I then answer my own questions a few months later.
I don't get why this is a bad news. It meant that most likely these questions would have been duplicates and/or very easy, as ChatGPT could fix them.
My issue with SO is on the opposite side of the spectrum. By the time I am ready to post a question after having done my homeworks, I know it is either an unfixable bug or out of reach for most if not all users, and the probability of getting an answer is very low.
Most of the time I then answer my own questions a few months later.