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Stack Overflow Collapsed 99%—AI Finished What Mods Started

Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed 99.41% from a 2014 peak of 207,000 to just 1,226 today, with the sharp decline beginning in November 2022 coinciding with ChatGPT's launch, according to data shared on Hacker News. The platform's decline reflects the impact of generative AI tools on developer communities, as users increasingly turn to AI for coding answers.

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A graph went viral on Hacker News today, July 18, and it needs no caption. Stack Overflow’s monthly question volume: 207,000 at the 2014 peak, a slow slide through 2022, then a cliff edge in November of that year. Today the number sits around 1,226. That is a 99.41% collapse — and the Hacker News discussion thread hit 316 upvotes and 365 comments within hours, because developers apparently had a lot of feelings to process. AI Didn’t Kill Stack Overflow. It Just Finished the Job. The cliff edge in November 2022 is ChatGPT’s launch date. That correlation is not subtle. […]

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