Before writing the comment I had in my head I did a CTRL+F search for "toxic" in the comment section here. 42 occurences. It says everything about what's happening to SO.
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rayanboulares commented on Ask HN: Did Developers Undermine Their Own Profession? · Posted by u/rayanboulares
> Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.
Dude, StackOverflow exists. Reddit, Quora, Facebook, all exist. You don't need to make up base lies to justify your crackpot tirade against open source developers.
That's part of my point here. Where's lawyers' StackOverflow? Where's financial advisors' Quora?
rayanboulares commented on Ask HN: Did Developers Undermine Their Own Profession? · Posted by u/rayanboulares
> Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.
Dude, StackOverflow exists. Reddit, Quora, Facebook, all exist. You don't need to make up base lies to justify your crackpot tirade against open source developers.
We deal with other professions on a daily basis. A lawyer or a financial advisor drops a single tip or piece of advice, even casually, and someone could be writing them a check for hundreds or thousands. A painter sells a single brushstroke or sketch and it’s still cash. They guard every scrap of knowledge because it’s literally money in their pocket.
rayanboulares commented on Ask HN: Did Developers Undermine Their Own Profession? · Posted by u/rayanboulares
You make a lot of assumptions here. Like: I've never bragged about how easy coding is. I've never glorified bootcamps. I've never treated open source work as baseline.
The real undermine that is happening now is AI replacing Jr Developers and interns.
Who fueled AI, though? If not those millions of lines of free, well-documented, commented code just sitting on GitHub, contributed for “fun” to show off work. Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers would never give away years of their expertise for free. Developers did. The rest will be history.