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AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are replacing public knowledge platforms like Stack Overflow (78% traffic drop) and Wikipedia, creating a dangerous feedback loop. Developers solve problems privately with AI instead of contributing publicly, starving the commons that trained these models. This risks model collapse when future AI trains on AI-generated content rather than human expertise. The shift trades communal knowledge evolution for efficient isolation, consolidates power in corporate AI monopolies, and eliminates the friction that taught verification skills. Without new mechanisms to publish AI-assisted reasoning publicly, we're optimizing individual productivity while destroying collective knowledge infrastructure.

We're Creating a Knowledge Collapse and No One's Talking About It

We're Feeling Guilty About the Wrong Thing

The problem is 3-fold:
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people most excited about AI (ones who make all decisions, want “free” work-force and more profits) have no idea how AI works.
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people who have a vague understanding of how it works, and now are forced to use it and expected to be 10x productive usually have 0 decision-making power (and are much less excited about it)
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people who understand how it works (they are the ones making it) - pretend that everything is fine, and hope no one notices before they can cash out.
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Ultimately, even adding tech to schools makes us dumber. Adding AI to the tech that is added to schools will turn us into biological radiators.
And, once the AI-regurgitation of self hits critical mass, we will just start from scratch.
That is: first die-out, mostly, and then: stone, fire, houses made of poop.

No stopping this runaway train. Good point though

I don’t agree on the “no one’s talking about it part” as I’ve already read multiple posts on this topic.
It’s even worse : everyone’s talking about it but it won’t change anything

The evidence is clear: we are heading toward a nonsensical world where we will delegate not only programming skills, but even human reasoning itself. Walter Tevis nailed this vision in his novel Mockingbird
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_(Tevis_novel)" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_(Tevis_novel)</a>).
It’s well worth reading to get a glimpse of where we may be headed.

For specific tasks it is still faster to see comments in stackoverflow then arguing with AIs incorrect answers. So “Stack must go on!” 😎