I’m surprised at the negative response to my comment, the statistics do not lie about Stack Overflow usage dropping rapidly. AI clearly objectively helps people. It is not all slop, I think people think about AI emotionally and see everything it touches as bad.

The code may be good, you are assuming all of it is bad.

The issue lies with knowing what the code does that AI produces, if you don’t have a clue and still use it that is when you are a vibe coder in my book.

If you just use it to increase productivity and improve code then I don’t see any issue with that and it does not make you any less of a developer. Times have changed, Stack Overflow is from the past.

This feels similar to Reddit but it feels much more news based than actual random user generated content.

918 million sounds about right, if you Google a question, oftentimes, the Reddit link appears at the top or very close to it.