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🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a>: Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too</p><p>&gt; Ryan welcomes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IlliaPolosukhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IlliaPolosukhin</span></a>, co-author of the original "Attention Is All You Need" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transformers</span></a> paper and co-founder of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEAR</span></a>, on the show to talk about the development and impact of the Transformers model, his perspective on modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machineLearning</span></a> as an early innovator of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a>, and the importance of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a>, user-owned AI utilizing the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/08/attention-isn-t-all-we-need-we-need-ownership-too/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/08/</span><span class="invisible">attention-isn-t-all-we-need-we-need-ownership-too/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webDev</span></a></p>
vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦<p>WTF happened to comments on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a>?!</p>
Trevor McLeod<p>I wonder if using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to perform <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vibecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vibecoding</span></a> is a bit like the mythical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perpetualmotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perpetualmotion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machine</span></a> ?</p><p>If <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s rely on scouring the net, for example <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> , won't there be less to learn from as coding is done using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> ?</p><p>So, how will <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s improve?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a></p>
Grumpy Website<p>Do you even remember why we were making websites in the first place?</p><p>Thanks ethical_haquer for the picture</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Popups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CookieBanner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CookieBanner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SignIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignIn</span></a></p>
Scripter :verified_flashing:<p>Github und Stackoverflow: Analyse zeigt Historie beliebter Programmiersprachen - Golem.de<br><a href="https://www.golem.de/news/github-und-stackoverflow-analyse-zeigt-historie-beliebter-programmiersprachen-2506-197362.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">golem.de/news/github-und-stack</span><span class="invisible">overflow-analyse-zeigt-historie-beliebter-programmiersprachen-2506-197362.html</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Programmiersprachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmiersprachen</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Github</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stackoverflow</span></a></p>
Achim Zeileis<p>Friends of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> this is becoming a habit but I need your help _again_ to re-open an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rexams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rexams</span></a> question.</p><p>I had explained that the difference is important: graded vs. ungraded open-ended questions in NOPS exams. Someone flagged it as duplicate nevertheless.</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79655980/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.com/questions/79</span><span class="invisible">655980/</span></a></p>
Dave Mason<p>The original Stack Overflow was great. A few years after being sold in June 2021, they started feeding our questions &amp; answers to OpenAI. They did it whether we wanted them to or not, giving us no options to opt-out or delete our data.</p><p>Now they have the gall to demand end users verify they are human, presumably because they don't want other unscrupulous entities scraping their website and monetizing our questions and answers.</p><p>Fuck them.</p><p>I hope they go bankrupt and die.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a></p>
Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag:<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/changemymind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>changemymind</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a></p>
sudonem<p>Very classy move by Stack Overflow. 🙄</p><p>It’s been downhill for a while but I suspect this will be the actual death knell. </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/stack_overflow_banning_users_who/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2024/05/09/sta</span><span class="invisible">ck_overflow_banning_users_who/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boycott</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaosfurs.social/@darkrat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>darkrat</span></a></span> So it can't even regurgitate sample code based off existing documentation?</p><ul><li>That's worse than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InstantAnswers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InstantAnswers</span></a> cuz they at least point at a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a> or the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> instead…</li></ul>
Wulfy<p>Video killed the radio star.<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vibecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vibecoding</span></a> killed <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> </p><p>Via "Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter"<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Ramin Honary<a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The number of questions being asked on StackOverflow is dropping rapidly</a> <p>Like cutting down a forest without growing new trees, the AI corporations seem to be consuming the natural raw material of their money-making machines faster than it can be replenished.</p><p>Natural, human-generated information, be they works of art, or conversations about factual things like how to write software, are the source of training data for Large Language Models (LLMs), which is what people are calling “artificial intelligence” nowadays. LLM shops spend untold millions on curating the information they harvest to ensure this data is strictly human-generated and free of other LLM-generated content. If they do not do this, the non-factual “hallucinations” (fictional content) that these LLMs generate may come to dominate the factual human-made training data, making the answers that the LLMs generate increasingly more prone to hallucination.</p><p>The Internet is already so full of LLM-generated content that it has become a major problem for these companies. The new LLMs are more and more often trained on fictional LLM-generated content that passes as factual and human-made, which is rapidly making LLMs less and less accurate as time goes on — a viscous downward spiral.</p><p>But it gets worse. Thanks to all of the AI hype, everyone is asking questions of LLMs nowadays and not of other humans. So the source of these LLMs training data, web sites like StackOverflow and Reddit, are now no longer recording as many questions from humans to other humans. If that human-made information disappears, so does the source of natural resources that make it possible to build these LLMs.</p><p>Even worse still, if there are any new innovations in science or technology, unless humans are asking question to the human innovators, the LLMs can’t learn about these things innovations either. Everyone will be stuck in this churning maelstrom of AI “slop,” asking only questions that have asked by millions of others before, and never receiving any true or accurate answers on new technology. And nobody, neither the humans nor the machines, will be learning anything new at all, while the LLMs become more and more prone to hallucinations with each new generation of AI released to the public.</p><p>I think we are finally starting to see the <strong>real limitations</strong> of this LLM technology come into clear view, the rate at which it is innovating is simply not sustainable. Clearly pouring more and more money and energy into scaling up these LLM project will <strong>not</strong> lead to increased return-on-investment, and will definitely not lead to the “singularity” in which machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence. So how long before the masses finally realize they have been sold nothing but a bill of goods by these AI corporations?</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/ai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/slop" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slop</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/llm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/generativeai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/chatgpt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/google" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/gemini" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gemini</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/metaai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MetaAI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/stackoverflow" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackOverflow</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reddit</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/datapoisoning" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataPoisoning</a></p>
JasonPunyon<p>Ever wanted to do something with the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> data dumps but found their multi gigabyte XML files too hard to deal with? That is...if you could find them at all after they stopped posting to the internet archive?</p><p>SEqlite's for you! It's the info from the dumps you probably care about, preprocessed into SQLite databases with indexes. </p><p><a href="https://seqlite.puny.engineering" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">seqlite.puny.engineering</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
harryprayiv<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://syzito.xyz/@selzero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>selzero</span></a></span> I mean, if you’re actively gatekeeping, can you blame them?</p><p>I spent DECADES not getting shit done because of all of the edgelords on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a>, literally *punishing me* for asking a question.</p><p>AI is almost always wrong… but at least I don’t have to deal with insecure <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edgelords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edgelords</span></a> making it impossible to ask to a question without removing it as a “dupe”.</p><p>I’m well aware of the repercussions to AI. Software engineering will suffer badly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> will run rampant.</p>
jack<p>Looks like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">stackoverflow.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and their status page are down today <br>EDIT: there is an active incident and the pages are loading now <a href="https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/e380b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e3-d0e090d70d6d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stackstatus.net/incidents/e380</span><span class="invisible">b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e3-d0e090d70d6d</span></a><br><a href="https://iosdev.space/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StackOverflow</span></a></p>
IT News<p>AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead - On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an ... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-</span><span class="invisible">coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/largelanguagemodels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>largelanguagemodels</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aipaternalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aipaternalism</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stackoverflow</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/airefusals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airefusals</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aicoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aicoding</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chatgtp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgtp</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biz</span></a>⁢ <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cursor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cursor</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>github</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>

I got an email from "stackoverflowsurvey@gmail.com" about a Stack Overflow survey. Most of my participation on the Stack Exchange network is actually on SuperUser, but I figured my contributions might still be useful/relevant. I imagine the populations between the two are pretty similar. They were looking for users from the United States.

Info Sheet: tiny.cc/Sheet1233

The Actual Survey: tiny.cc/Survey1233

I got nerd-sniped hard by what I considered to be (mostly) excellent questions surrounding DEI-type concerns. I ended up spending way longer than 15-30 minutes on them anyway. So... I'm dumping my responses here in a thread before going to bed for the night.

Google DocsParticipation Information Sheet.pdf
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@ai6yr same for me...

Either way, this is basically the best case scenario "#AI" can do.

  • It usually doesn'f comprehend the technical and design issues or questions needed to be dealt with to progam anything beyond boilerplate code...

Believe me, if that was feasible I would've done so but even simple bash scrips don't get made and it's easier to search #StackOverflow / #ServerFsult for relevant issues and then just go from there...