I really wonder what he would say today. In a way, being devoured by LLMs achieved SO’s ultimate goal of helping people solve programming problems quickly, but at the cost of SO.
It's interesting how much the good parts have to do with not worrying about how much money your making or the job you have and instead focuses on technical topics. People are not happy Dan, and we can't bring it back to 2014 when a select few got to get massages before they pushed their commit for the day. If you want to be part of an interesting technical discussion you have to acknowledge where the people with knowledge are.
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(I can't remember why that last, i.e. the first, title was so different.)
I really wonder what he would say today. In a way, being devoured by LLMs achieved SO’s ultimate goal of helping people solve programming problems quickly, but at the cost of SO.