I remember this site for the simple reason that no one involved with computers in the 2010s, especially with certain things like programming or web design, could possibly avoid it. If you Googled something about C or C++ or Java or HTML5 or CSS, some programming algorithm, or something about data structures, you'd probably have a Stack Overflow result somewhere on page 1.

I suspect that that's still the case, but I got all of that stuff out of my life before the AI explosion around 2022 or so. The first time I began to realize that an AI explosion was beginning was when I read that something called 'ChatGPT', of which I had theretofore never heard, was causing a big problem in universities, because idiots were starting to have it write their assignments. I realized that this would make the education system even worse, because people could now get degrees while learning much less of the course content. Thus making degrees less indicative of a person's knowledge and thus driving credentialism to ever-greater heights.

Disinterested in AI because of observations such as this and the obnoxious deepfakery that popped up a few years earlier - another AI-driven, predatory thing so remarkably useful for scammers - I only started using ChatGPT infrequently in 2025. I needed some code to deal with very large number types that C and C++ can't seem to deal with without some extra stuff, whereas the language I used can do what I needed out of the box. Problem: I didn't know anything about the language. It didn't matter, because ChatGPT usefully generated working code.

Thus, my conclusion is that ChatGPT blows Stack Overflow out of the water. Faster responses than human answers, generates code that sometimes works upfront. Stack Overflow, by contrast, is full of people whining about 'duplicate' questions, 'homework' questions, etc.

What is so insidious about AI - like the internet more generally - is that while it is helpful in various respects, its helpfulness also enables much criminality and evil, such as being able to create convincing impersonations of figures such as 'Mr. Beast' that are then used to scam the gullible ('Mr. Beast just launched this new online casino!). Other disturbing cases include people who develop strong romantic attachment to AIs and the absolutely unacceptable cases of AIs encouraging users, most often impressionable teens, to commit self-harm or even suicide.

Government regulation needs to come down heavy on any confirmed cases of the latter: make AI companies cough up millions every time this happens, and they will be sure to fix it. There is absolutely zero justifiable reason that AI should be encouraging anyone to self-harm. I don't care about the freedom or rights of some homosexual Jew like Sam Altman or his company. Fix the problems that you're causing or get crushed: that should be the ultimatum that all of these out-of-control companies should face.