Stack Overflow's Worst Nightmare: ChatGPT

[text] You find someone on StackOverflow asking your exact question

Content Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow? Jessica Su, CS PhD student at 94 Stanford Answered Dec 28 Upvoted by Rupak Hattikudur, Software Engineer LT Infotech and Terry Lambert, Senior Software Engineer: Novell, Artisoft, IBM, Array Netw... It's still worth the money. The breakdown is Copying code from StackOverflow: 1 Knowing which code to copy from StackOverflow: 100000year

Your toolbox is a graveyard of frameworks, libraries, and technologies you swore you'd "definitely use for the right project." Docker, Kubernetes, Spring, Hibernate, Next.js, Bash, C, JavaScript, Python, Git, SSH, curl, StackOverflow (naturally), and about 47 other tools you installed during a 2 AM productivity binge. The joke here is the classic developer hoarding mentality. Someone asks where you got all these tools, and you justify it with "every tool has a purpose" and "they're all necessary." But let's be real—half of them haven't been touched since installation, and the other half are just different ways to do the same thing because you couldn't decide between React and Vue three years ago. It's like having 15 different screwdrivers when you only ever use one. Except in programming, each screwdriver has its own package manager, breaking changes every 6 months, and a Discord server where people argue about best practices. The meme perfectly captures how we rationalize our ever-growing tech stack while sitting there with analysis paralysis, surrounded by tools we "might need someday."

Content value foo bar; bar 0.000000000000001; OverflowException That's on me, I set the bar too low.

Content 1h I've made a c discord bot by just searching what I wanted into stack overflow and putting all the bits together. Reply 4 .43m That's literally every program I've ever written. I feel personally attacked.

The classic "just use Linux" response in its purest form. Someone desperately reaches out for antivirus recommendations, and the tech community's solution? "Common sense is the best antivirus" – right before watching them drown in malware. It's like telling someone who can't swim that "not drowning is the best swimming technique." Thanks for the life-changing wisdom, Reddit security experts! I'm sure that advice will come in handy when grandma clicks on that Nigerian prince email.