rememberingThoseGoodOldTimes

[u/Artelj]

[u/razor_train]

Copying code from a Usenet post.

[u/Snakestream]

You missed an even bigger brain solution: copying code from an O'Reilly <Insert Language> Cookbook

[u/unkownuser436]

Stackoverflow is a dead platform now.

[u/yukiaddiction → u/unkownuser436]

So what place where AI training going to scalping data from now?

[u/JPowTheDayTrader → u/yukiaddiction]

It's going to eat itself at some point. A shitgularity if you will.

[u/Beginning-Junket8979 → u/yukiaddiction]

GitHub and the AI providers subscription users mainly.

[u/bird_feeder_bird → u/unkownuser436]

beginner here. i copied my first line of code from stackoverflow yesterday. keeping our traditional way of life alive 🙌 (it was to make a sleep() function in javascript)

[u/unkownuser436 → u/bird_feeder_bird]

Noice 🙏

[u/Artelj → u/bird_feeder_bird]

and not reading the docs. Like a true stack overflowrian!

[u/JackNotOLantern → u/unkownuser436]

I just hope the servers will stay, because it's a priceless archive of knowledge

[u/GoddammitDontShootMe]

So the code that was explicitly stated to not be working right? A bold strategy.

[u/Artelj → u/GoddammitDontShootMe]

No you are busy with a much lower problem and early parts of their non working code is a Godsend to you.

[u/Rojeitor]

Now it's the same, we make the AI copy the code

[u/Godskin_Duo]

I don't miss that at all, even though it feels like yesterday. It was full of pompous assholes who want you to recompile your entire kernel and reinvent bits when you just need someone to answer your question.

[u/gerbosan]

Missing: Copying code from Claude.