I've been using LLM's to do searches for awhile, its quicker and i get better results. What happens in the future when new issues are only mentioned in github, x or reddit, and a different LLM is trained on each, have to use 3 searches?
The problem with LLMs as a replacement for StackOverflow (and any other peer reviewed Q/A site) is that the LLM has, shocker, no peer review. Combined with the fact that the user has insufficient expertise to adequately vet the responses (ie: they needed to ask in the first place), there is a trap where the user can end up using an incorrect response without any expert feedback to help them make an informed choice.
As the LLMs get better, I expect that this will improve, but for now, it's gonna train a lot of novices to apply bad practices.
I posted a similar plot showing the steep decline of SO questions on <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/432618/395857" rel="nofollow">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/432618/395857</a> two weeks ago and surprise surprise, it got removed by a mod... Can still see on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250110231518/https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/432617/why-is-stack-getting-increasingly-hostile-can-anything-be-done" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250110231518/https://meta.stac...</a><p>Meanwhile on <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/384652/178179" rel="nofollow">https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/384652/178179</a>, it's pretty clear that the few remaining Stack Exchange users are strongly against using LLMs regardless how good LLMs become. Luddites 2.0
No, because anytime I would find a solution on SO use that solution even with modification in my own code, I would link directly to the solution so that there's a chain of understanding what the solution is and why it works.<p>I can never do that with something spit out by some spicy autocomplete, which is one reason I never use LLMs.