Employees of Google's DeepMind team posted that in the past year and a half, the number of visits to Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer community, has dropped by 50%.
From April 2021 to April 2022, Stack Overflow's page views can still be maintained at around 20 million, but from April last year to July this year, its visits dropped to 9 million, a drop of more than 50% .
In this regard, Musk bluntly stated that Stack Overflow has been "killed" by LLM (Large Language Model).
In another chart of Stack Overflow's data, the analyst notes that "time spent by users on Stack Overflow is down 40 percent year-over-year, and is down about 200 million hours from the site's previous peak."
Musk "sharply commented" on this: the phenomenon of being replaced by LLM will become more and more common.
However, some people pointed out that the emergence of the AI chatbot ChatGPT may only accelerate this trend, not the root cause. Many people believe that the overreaction of mod volunteers in the Stack Overflow community is a large factor in the poor user experience. In addition to the 50% decrease in traffic, the number of questions and answers on the website has also decreased by 50%, and the number of votes has also decreased.