Extra.

LOL in a lot of ways.

2025 is gonna be interesting.

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    We’ve also recently introduced Coding Challenges to our site! These new challenges represent a new, fun way for developers to level up by tackling captivating puzzles and earning recognition for your skills and creativity. It’s a rewarding way to practice and expand your knowledge with the Stack Overflow community in a space that celebrates diverse and unique approaches.

    aka

    >pls provide training material for the LLMs for free :pray:

    lol. lmao, even

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    Boy oh boy, what a post. Somehow they managed to make it less clear than ever what they even want to do with the platform, here are my favorite highlights:

    With the use of AI now ubiquitous and ‘AI slop’ rapidly replacing the content we see online, this trust gap is where we think Stack Overflow can play a role. Our renewed vision and purpose moving forward is to be the world’s most vital source for technologists. By providing a trusted human intelligence layer in the age of AI, we believe we can serve technologists with our mission to cultivate community, power learning, and unlock growth.

    That’s some advanced corpo-speak, doubling down on AI but also acknowledging that people don’t like AI-generated answers and providing a “human intelligence layer” to “unlock growth”. Did an AI write this? Lol.

    As AI becomes more pervasive, the efficacy of AI systems will increasingly depend on access to verifiable and accurate knowledge. That will extend to job opportunities too as people look for guidance on exciting career prospects, and this is why we aim to Unlock growth for those who come to Stack Overflow or use our products.

    I can feel the growth unlocking the more of this I read.

    Knowledge Ingestion converts high-value content from tools like SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, and others into structured, trusted knowledge inside a Stack Internal instance. It’s designed to eliminate silos, accelerate onboarding, and scale institutional wisdom.

    I wasn’t sure I wanted to ingest knowledge, but now that I can eliminate all these silos, I’m sure that my team can finally gain some institutional wisdom. Also I’m having a stroke. Help-

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    The signal to noise ratio on Stack Overflow has been low for a long time now, even before LLMs showed up. I was once a high-rep contributor there. Nowadays, I usually won’t even bother clicking web search results that lead there, let alone share my knowledge with them. (And with Cloudflare, which is now a man-in-the-middle between the site and its users.)

    IMHO, the community could use a distributed Q&A network, with no instance able to interfere with anyone’s access to our accumulated knowledge.

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      This.

      In 2010 Stackoverflow was amazing. Tons of information, everything was up-to-date, great.

      And then they close every new question on a similar topic as duplicate, ensuring that if you look up e.g. a Java question you can be sure it’s about Java 7. Because we all know I everyone in 2025 is using Java 7.

      And of course, neither the questions nor the answers require version tagging and thus hardly any of them have anything like that.

      And now they want to take this pool of outdated garbage and feed it into a garbage processing unit AI to make it somehow cooler.

      Good luck with that.

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        Lol this is hilarious. This paragraph is my fave:

        We identified that color is a way to connect with people across all divides (and we have research that people respond positively to it) — it is a universal language that transcends the boundaries of our diverse verbal languages. And we chose “Colorways” rather than “themes” to show we are branching out from our language of “browser” to speak the language of everyday life and everyday users. This is about more than just installing a new “theme,” which really doesn’t have much meaning to most people.

        On a completely unrelated note (your username), I just started reading a couple Asimov novels! Any recommendation for which ones I should pick up next? I’ve already done I, Robot and Caves of Steel. Thinking maybe I start Foundation soon (but just started the TV show).

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          I would definitely recommend Foundation series. I have not watched the show but I would be surprised if they could adapt it well since it is not something that would easily be portrayed on film.