You Need Stack Overflow Despite Having AI

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You Need Stack Overflow Despite Having AI

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The circle of digital life! Your AI coding assistant confidently suggests improvements while secretly running on a diet of Stack Overflow answers from 2014. Meanwhile, those Stack Overflow answers need constant human updates because technology evolves faster than documentation. It's the ultimate ouroboros - AI pretending to be smarter than the humans who created the very content it regurgitates. Next time your AI suggests "optimizing" your perfectly functional code, remember it's just parroting some poor soul who got 47 upvotes seven years ago.

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