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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:16:21 +0800
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On 10-May-24 2:55 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal
>   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/
> 
> The end of stack overflow?
> 
> Personally I know companies are using my open sourced stuff..
> Let it be...
> 
> I like Stackoverflow, it gave me many good answers in the past
> to difficult questions...
> Many highly qualified people there.
> 

One often has to trawl through a number of suggested solutions, either 
because most of them are wrong (or at least wildly apocryphal), 
irrelevant, or because the same or similar symptoms can have many 
different underlying causes.

I have to wonder whether a language model is really up to the task of 
filtering out the dross, while keeping the important parts.

Sylvia.