Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;432618&#x2F;395857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;432618&#x2F;395857</a> two weeks ago and surprise surprise, it got removed by a mod... Can still see on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250110231518&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;432617&#x2F;why-is-stack-getting-increasingly-hostile-can-anything-be-done" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250110231518&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stac...</a><p>Meanwhile on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;384652&#x2F;178179" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;384652&#x2F;178179</a>, it&#x27;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&#x27;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.

OpenAI took all of StackOverflow&#x27;s content to train their LLM, and now it&#x27;s clear they stole their audience and revenue, too.