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Stack Overflow didn't just give answers—it taught developers how to think. AI gives answers faster, but the real question is: are we still building problem-solving skills, or just optimizing for speed? Curious to hear from developers: Has AI made you a better engineer, or a more dependent one?

Stack Overflow will never be replaced

I said goodbye to SO back in 2014... 😅

But am afraid about

SO is still useful especially for small questions on why something has broken. Guess new common breaks won’t show up on SO.

It's a big problem... Nobody foreseen it... Ai are fed from this sites, if the source is over where is the knowledge sourced then?

Automatic switching without using our brains is just...

AI is handicapping Mankind to think critical and learn or do things by own, It's weakening the human mind capabilities as it is allowing Today not to learn or do a thing which takes effort n time; crack anything you want to just with a prompt. It's a technology weapon- a modern way to let Powerful Developed countries make other countries slave and let them buy AI products n tools from them. Harsh n bitter truth of AI which sooner or later gonna impact everybody's life.

Because AI does not make condescending comments or downvotes people when you ask questions.

The decline in Stack Overflow usage does not necessarily mean the end of learning, but it does reveal a profound shift in how developers seek knowledge. AI accelerates answers, but the real differentiator will remain understanding the problem, validating solutions, and knowing how to ask the right questions. Tools change; critical thinking remains indispensable.

Frederic Lhoest you're right but we're humans training the AI by giving prompts and it's getting better day by day. Our prompts helping the AI systems to perform well. Now prompts are the source.

Stack-Overflow needs to be supported ! AI Models / LLMs are like Google. Still Stack-Overflow lets you Interact. Let Stack-Overflow Integrates its Plaform with AI. And let Stack-Overflow keeps it data Away from AI access.

AI can generate errors or security flaws, and iterate to solve a complex problem, generating more errors, without adequate understanding from the developer. SO operates based on real-world experience, so they shouldn't disappear; their combination is key to success.

Relying too much on AI gonna backfire job seekers only, yea once you get the job it feels good that AI gets your task done easily, but what if companies start adopting Face to face interviews? The more you rely on AI the more companies will prefer using AI over living humans.

Srishtee Dureja The cognitive dependency argument is the one I take most seriously in this entire debate. But here's where I'd push back slightly — the same critique was made about books, calculators, and search engines. Each time, the people who learned to use the tool well pulled further ahead. The ones who avoided it didn't preserve their edge. They just fell behind differently. AI is the same test, just at a higher stakes level.

Nejdet Çağdaş Y. honestly, this might be the most underrated reason in the entire thread. Stack Overflow had a culture problem long before it had a traffic problem. AI didn't just answer faster — it answered without making you feel stupid for asking.

Judith Nathanail That's a sharp observation. SO was great at cataloguing known breaks. But new errors in new frameworks, written with AI-generated code? Those won't have SO threads. They'll barely have documentation. That's where the gap gets real.

Jhomara Luzuriaga exactly right. The danger isn't AI generating errors — it's developers shipping those errors without understanding why. SO forced you to read, understand, and verify. AI skips that step unless you deliberately don't let it.

Aditya Phutane exactly. The interview room doesn't care what your AI said. That gap will show.

Meriç Sebuktekin comfortable decline. Finish that sentence — it's worth saying out loud.