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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 roughly 1,226 today, with the steep decline beginning in November 2022 coinciding with ChatGPT's launch, according to a viral Hacker News graph posted July 18 that drew 316 upvotes and 365 comments.

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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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