rayanboulares

Before writing the comment I had in my head I did a CTRL+F search for "toxic" in the comment section here. 42 occurences. It says everything about what's happening to SO.

That's part of my point here. Where's lawyers' StackOverflow? Where's financial advisors' Quora?

We deal with other professions on a daily basis. A lawyer or a financial advisor drops a single tip or piece of advice, even casually, and someone could be writing them a check for hundreds or thousands. A painter sells a single brushstroke or sketch and it’s still cash. They guard every scrap of knowledge because it’s literally money in their pocket.

Who fueled AI, though? If not those millions of lines of free, well-documented, commented code just sitting on GitHub, contributed for “fun” to show off work. Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers would never give away years of their expertise for free. Developers did. The rest will be history.

Just the day I discovered TCP Congestion Windows and spent the day tweaking and benchmarking between Vegas, Reno, Cubic and TCTP