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Stack Overflow usage has declined sharply since 2017, with a dramatic drop after 2023. Developers are abandoning the platform in favor of LLMs that provide faster answers without the toxic, unwelcoming interactions that characterized Stack Overflow's community. While AI would likely have disrupted Stack Overflow regardless, the platform's hostile culture made developers eager rather than reluctant to leave. This serves as a cautionary tale: communities that rely solely on necessity without fostering positive experiences risk rapid abandonment when alternatives emerge.

We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

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