I don't know what your experience has been, but I do feel that at some point you will find yourself on or beyond SO's "knowledge frontier".

The questions you land on will be unanswered or have equally confused replies; or you might be the one who's asking a question instead.

I've "paid back" by leaving a high quality response on unanswered SO questions that I've had to figure out myself, but it felt quite thankless since even the original poster would disappear, and anyone who found my answer from Google wouldn't be able to give me an upvote either.

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YetAnotherNick 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

No, you don't. Not only there are many examples of detailed stackoverflow articles written by absolute experts, you also need answer often for something trivial(which is like half of my chatgpt), e.g. how to export in pgadmin, or a nondescriptive error in linux.

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palata 3 days ago | parent [-]

> No, you don't.

When someone says "I feel like" and you answer "No, you don't", you're most certainly wrong :-).

I do feel like the parent.

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YetAnotherNick 3 days ago | parent [-]

If you read parent's comment it's not "I feel like" comment even though he mentioned it. I have been in software engineering for long and the queries to stackoverflow/chatgpt combined haven't decreased for me.

	▲	palata 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> I don't know what your experience has been, but I do feel Are you being serious here?

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palata 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I've "paid back" by leaving a high quality response on unanswered SO questions that I've had to figure out myself

I was used to doing that, but then the moderation got in the way. So I stopped.