What's the future of Stackoverflow and the like?

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I'm making an assumption that stackoverflow is a large part of why GPT4 is so good at debugging issues. It's also a pretty direct replacement for stackoverflow. I'm further assuming this is true of the other overflows.So it seems both especially valuable to GPT and especially susceptible to replacement.I was thinking about this yesterday as I burned some hours on a problem that was surprisingly resilient to ChatGPT debugging, as well as to both web and SO search, but eventually asked on SO, got help, and it turns out to be a pretty simple problem and solution.Is there a future for these sites, or for a replacement for them? Is there some flow that makes sense where a ChatGPT session isn't going anywhere and you're directed to SO or a similar forum to post your ChatGPT-resilient problem and where others might wish to spend their time helping you?

brucethemoose2 · Accepted Answer

If LLMs can get all the "easy" and answered questions, whats left is the challenging and novel ones, which are more interesting to answer. It would make SO better, with more motivated answerers tackling a smaller, higher quality pool of questions.But from a business perspective, this is a problem for SO because ultimately it means less engagement on the site.