Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?)

From	Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?)
Date	2025-07-15 20:58 +0200
Message-ID	<10568cu$2apph$6@solani.org> (permalink)
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Hi,

So StackOverflow has already fallen, and
GitHub will be the next one. StackOverflow
was eclectic, insuinated a high Signal
quality but repelled its newcomers by
strick language rules and deletism.

StackOverlow is suplaned by ChatGPT, etc..
They are more tolerant and can deliver
excellent Signals, much beter than
StackOverflow. ChatGPT and other assistants
flipped the model: No downvotes.

No “duplicate question” shaming. Conversational,
exploratory, and often faster than Googling +
scanning SO threads. Most importantly: they don’t
punish incomplete knowledge, which is where
most human learning happens.

LLMs give a more forgiving learning curve.

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:
> 
> Henri Poincaré believed that mathematical
> and scientific creativity came from a deep,
> unconscious intuition that could not be
> 
> captured by mechanical reasoning or formal
> systems. He famously wrote about how insights
> came not from plodding logic but from sudden
> 
> illuminations — leaps of creative synthesis.
> 
> But now we have generative AI — models like GPT — that:
> 
> - produce poetry, proofs, stories, and code,
> 
> - combine ideas in novel ways,
> 
> - and do so by processing patterns in massive
>     datasets, without conscious understanding.
> 
> And that does seem to contradict Poincaré's belief
> that true invention cannot come from automation.

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Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 20:57 +0200
  Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 20:58 +0200
    GitHub 2.0: The no code companion repository (Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 21:27 +0200
    Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:38 -0500
    Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:56 -0500
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:15 -0500
    I am not from Israel or Jewish (Was: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-16 11:46 +0200
      Re: I am not from Israel or Jewish (Was: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-17 22:44 -0500
        I am neither Hanson (Was: I am not from Israel or Jewish) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-19 22:09 +0200
          Re: I am neither Hanson bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 00:32 +0000
            Was Hanson your Bed Warmer? (Was: I am neither Hanson) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-21 10:17 +0200
              Re: Was Hanson your Bed Warmer? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 09:42 +0000
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-17 01:36 +0000
    Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-16 19:55 -0700
      Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-19 00:37 +0000
        Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-18 18:47 -0700
        Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-19 03:47 +0000
          Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-19 06:29 -0700
            Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 00:27 +0000
              Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-20 18:25 -0700
                Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 06:53 +0000
                Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-21 06:01 -0700
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