Stackoverflow down 14% in one month. Are you using it less too?

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https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/stack-overflow-chatgpt/

Personally I'm using it far less now after getting addicted 😅 to cursor.so and GitHub Copilot chat.

Rishikesh Ranjan · Accepted Answer

I use Github copilot.

Gabriele Mazzola 🧭 · Answer

Totally. Iterating on errors with GPT4 is - especially now with browsing enabled - something insanely helpful. I believe I went from using SO several times a day to a few times a month

Rishikesh Ranjan · Answer

@sentry_co I don't use the chat feature very much. Just the regular Copilot.

Eden · Answer

@sentry_co oooh i didn't know about that, i'll check that out thanks for sharing

Eden · Answer

GitHub Copilot ended up being more of a hinderance for me personally. I would trust it to autocomplete something correctly but it would always cause bugs 😭

Maksym Skrypka · Answer

I started using SO less. I am using AI more and more

Gabriele Mazzola 🧭 · Answer

@sentry_co If you use GPT4 you can enable browsing (by clicking on the model in the top bar of the UI) and then the model is able to perform Bing searches based on your prompts to find relevant info.

André J · Answer

@ranjanrishikesh The GitHub Copilot chat beta or regular copilot?

Martin Ratinaud · Answer

Yeah I'm sorry for SO especially because I'm sure most of the code ChatGPT is giving comes from them

Serge Neskoromny · Answer

I use ChatGPT, which has greatly reduced my reliance on Google and Stack Overflow by approximately 99% and 80% respectively. When I need to write a new class, I start by writing a detailed technical description that includes the necessary APIs or libraries to use, along with fields, parameters, and variables and names of methods, and then send it to ChatGPT. This approach has been quite successful. However, when dealing with domains that I'm unfamiliar with, it is less effective and requires testing after each iteration. And for researching recent changes in documentation and APIs, I use perplexity.ai!

André J · Answer

@gabriele_mazzola And what do you mean browsing enabled?

André J · Answer

@gabriele_mazzola Hopefully SO doesn't become a graveyard, what will the AI get their answers from then? 😅

André J · Answer

@serge_neskoromny I never heard about perplexity.ai - looks interesting! what does it do better than chat gpt 4?

André J · Answer

@entreeden I tried GitHub Copilot too early. It was not very useful 4 months ago. But 1 month ago they opened up GitHub Copilot chat. Which is something totally different than what it was in the beginning.

Serge Neskoromny · Answer

@sentry_co It can access data on the internet, including the news. Additionally, it provides working links to the documentation and all the sources for the information it has, which actually works. ChatGPT often gives you broken links.

Stackoverflow down 14% in one month. Are you using it less too?

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