Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about.
Source: Data Stack Exchange
No, it isn’t a crypto coin crashing a few hours after being minted. And not, it is also not an oscillatory/wavy graph made with pure CSS, but a harsher truth.
I already gave it away with the title, but it still hits like a ton of bricks to know it is the steep decline in the number of questions asked on Stack Overflow. You can see its peak around 2014 with more than 200,000 questions asked in a single month. But now in 2026, it is struggling to even hit 3,000 questions a month.
We don’t have to be experts in the field to find out the culprit. You guessed, it’s AI… mostly.
