This week I read an article on CSS-Tricks about Stack Overflow. It showed a chart, and the chart stayed with me. Questions on Stack Overflow peaked around 2014, with more than 200,000 questions in a single month. In 2026 the site barely reaches 3,000 a month. The author points at AI as the main reason, mostly.
I felt something when I saw that drop. I remember asking questions there years ago. I remember the small fear before posting: maybe my question is a duplicate, maybe someone tells me it is stupid. But I also remember how much I learned from that process. Writing the question forced me to understand the problem first.
Now I almost never ask Stack Overflow. I ask an LLM. It is faster. It does not judge me, in fact it praises me too much. I get an answer in seconds. And honestly, I like it.
But the more I think about it, the more I worry. My worry is not really about Stack Overflow. It is about something bigger. AI is changing how we think, how we write code, and how we read it. I am not sure this goes in a good direction.
How we think
