Despite AI agents, why is StackOverflow still relevant?

A developer recounts how, after an Expo-built mobile app crashed in production, an AI coding assistant hallucinated a diagnosis, forcing a return to Stack Overflow and Reddit for answers. The developer argues that human forums provide context, community, and deeper learning that AI tools lack, and warns that relying solely on AI can erode the instincts needed to detect when AI is wrong.

Recently, I built a mobile app with Expo; everything worked well with the development build on a simulator and a real device. Yet when I published the app to test the production build on a real device, it crashed without any explanation. With the crash, I had to get the crash report from Apple and download it to read it and try to understand the issue, yet even with that, I did not find any details that could help me, so I did what any normal guy during this age can do, I gave my code base to claude code and the crash report to anaylze them and tell me the issue. Guess what happened here? It hallucinated Reading Claude's output made me feel I wasn't going in the right direction; for that reason, I had to go the old way: Stack Overflow and Reddit. Going to read the issues there helped me with three main extra things that AI does not provide: When I go to Stack Overflow or Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/17pfxsk/expo app crashes when deployed to testflight/ , I read the question, the thread, and other people's comments, even if it's not the correct one; this helps me get context, grasp the idea, and even learn some historical data about the issue. That might be the one I am facing. When I read other people's struggles and experiences, it gives me the feeling that I am not alone- not just me and a machine trying to prompt it to work- and it makes me feel that I belong to something bigger. It helps me keep up, not get frustrated, and feel that it's me who cannot solve issues with AI. Our brain does not remember the information when you read it once and forget it; we learn when we put effort and push the limits of our brain. With AI, this is getting easier by sending the question directly and getting the answer, so we forget even the issue if we face it again spoiler alert: I had this exact issue a few months ago and forgot about it . That's why slow reading and similar methods help keep our brains alive and help us improve. With this, I am not saying to fully remove AI and not trust it, yet I would not have developed the instincts to know that AI gave me the wrong answer if I did not go to the slow methods before the AI age, and I think it should be the same even now; we can not expect the people who did not program anything before to understand when the AI is not going to the right direction and how to help it.