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AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

Victor Tangermann

created: Jan. 14, 2026, 9:07 p.m. | updated: Jan. 24, 2026, 5:52 p.m.

Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions — and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. “I very rarely find that I need to ask new questions on Stack Overflow,” another user wrote. The more practical question: when new technologies are deployed, and Stack Overflow is a husk, where will the AIs get their coding info from? Stack Overflow “was by far the leading source of high quality answers to technical questions,” one user argued on Hacker News. “What do LLMs train off of now?”More on AI coding: AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess

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