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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)

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The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in their IDEs, making the popular developer forum increasingly irrelevant.

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[–] devtoolkit_api@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

The drop in questions makes sense, but the interesting metric would be whether the quality of remaining questions has gone up or down. If LLMs are absorbing all the "how do I center a div" and "null pointer exception" questions, what is left should theoretically be harder, more nuanced questions that AI cannot easily answer.

The flip side is that SO answers are now part of the training data that makes LLMs useful. If people stop contributing answers, the models eventually become stale. It is a bit of a tragedy of the commons.