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beeboop0 commented on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy   ossa-ma.github.io/blog/op... · Posted by u/calcifer
beeboop0 · 21 days ago
yeah but any service that shittifies will get upstaged by services that don't (cough cough: Deepseek)

I need unskewed answers more than I need technical prowness, because technical expertise is going towards commodity availability. i like chat GPT but I'm gone the second they put ads into my development workflow. Bye!

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beeboop0 commented on We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole   pcloadletter.dev/blog/aba... · Posted by u/ronbenton
Permit · a month ago
StackOverflow was successful explicitly because of the people/question it excluded. The "toxicity" was the point. It was trying very very hard not to become Yahoo Questions. If you want to hear more about this you should watch Joel Spolsky's talk "The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGA2fmAHvM

The point of StackOverflow was explicitly not to help the question-askers, but to prioritize the people who would reach the question via Google. That's why so many people have bad stories about times they went to ask questions on StackOverflow: it was supposed to be very high-friction and there was supposed to be a high standard for the questions asked there.

Now with LLMs users get the best of both worlds. They don't need to use Google to find a high-quality StackOverflow question/answer AND they can ask any question even if it's been asked 1,000 times before or is low-quality or would lead to discussion rather than a singular answer.

beeboop0 · a month ago
The toxicity was the point?

That's a psychopathic take on the matter, I'm sorry.

Nothing or no one forced anyone to be harsh to other human beings. That was a deliberate choice by a bunch of sociopaths

u/beeboop0

KarmaCake day2September 22, 2025View Original