I Guess We Can't Save Stack Overflow From AI

Ah, the classic "how do I stop numbers going below 0" question! The perfect showcase of programming evolution: Beginner: *writes 27 comments with elaborate if-statements and custom functions* Intermediate: "tldr: cap decrement of variable at minimum 0" *writes 5 lines of code* Yann-LeCun (AI pioneer): "max(x, 0)" And that, friends, is why senior devs get paid the big bucks. Three characters that say "I've seen this problem 500 times before, and I'm not writing another if-statement about it."

The self-conscious monkey meme perfectly captures the existential crisis of every developer who's built their entire career on Stack Overflow answers and documentation lookups. When a doctor says "Googling doesn't make you a doctor," devs suddenly realize their entire professional identity is just strategic Googling with extra steps. The awkward side-eye is that moment you remember your last 8-hour debugging session was solved by a random comment from 2013 with 2 upvotes. We're not doctors, we're just professional Googlers with better search syntax!

Content Ayushi Rawat c ayushi7rawat Have you ever wondered why programmers have so many strong communities like Stackoverflow, devRant, Reddit, etc. and no other profession has such communities? Because we haven't built one for them! 5:50 AM 19 May 21 Twitter Web App

Every coding quest begins with brave warriors marching into the unknown, only to discover the ancient StackOverflow scrolls left by those who struggled before them. The true heroes aren't the ones who solve problems first—they're the ones who document their battles so the next generation doesn't have to fight the same bugs. Nothing says "I care about humanity" like posting a detailed answer to a question with zero upvotes from 2013.

Content I'm trying to generate a random int that is either 0 or 1 in C. Right now, I receive a 0 every time I run this code, and I'm not sure why. What's the problem here? 24 7 include ctime include cstdlib srand(time (0)); int randomval rand() 2; cout randomval endl; C random ctime share improve this question follow edited Dec 7 '11 at 21:23 asked Dec 7 '11 at 21:19 Rich Byden Liatt ness Races in grin begin Rich Byder . 13 344k 63 558 927 8 Answers Active Oldest Votes it is called bad luck. Try it again. 154 share improve this answer follow answered Dec 7 '11 at 21:22 Michael Krelin - hacker 107k 16 175 164

Content Cutting corners to meet arbitrary management deadlines Essential Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow O'REILLY The Practical Developer ThePracticalDev