Stack Overflow with all of its shortcomings was a marvel of the internet at it's peak. People especially in early were chasing karma and anything you asked, you were sure to get some answer. Not always right but some answer. While for sure LLMs will give much better answers on average. I feel that it's a piece of humanity we've lost there that should be adequately remembered and the memory cherished.

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throawayonthe 6 hours ago | parent [-]

getting a wrong answer in a public forum can be great to motivate corrections :p

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theSuda 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I am also going to miss searching for something, finding a stack overflow thread and noticing that I wrote that answer years ago. :)

	▲	kstrauser 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they searched a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
	▲	kstrauser 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they asked a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.
	▲	mcswell an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		...or I asked the question (and got an answer) years ago, but forgot because I hadn't worked in that programming language in the interim. (That's my excuse, anyway.)