Here’s how SO could still be useful in the LLM era:

User asks a question, llm provides an immediate answer/reply on the forum. But real people can still jump in to the conversation to add additional insights and correct mistakes.

If you’re a user that asks a duplicate question, it’ll just direct you to the good conversation that already happened.

A symbiosis of immediate usually-good-enough llm answers PLUS human generated content that dives deeper and provides reassurances in correctness

Users could upvote whether Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT provided the best answer. The best of three is surfaced, the others are hidden behind a "show alternatives."

However, I can see how this would be labelled "shoving AI into everything" and "I'm not on SO for AI."

Or they can start claiming copyright on the training content

Should probably email this to the CEO of SO