Stack Overflow under 1,000 questions a month
The headline is that Stack Overflow now gets fewer than 1,000 questions a month. Reactions were blunt: "They get that many?!" and "I don't think they're gonna be long for the world." Commenters linked an earlier thread showing what AI did to the site in a graph, which had 483 points and 595 comments three months ago.
This is the concrete data point behind a quieter claim running through other threads. One commenter jokes that when AI wipes out programming jobs, young men may flock to monasteries. A Kogui statement on AI was embraced as a warning about a new golden calf. People are drawing a line from a collapsed Q&A site to a collapsed career ladder.
Stack Overflow's value was its stock of human answers. That stock is still there, but the flow of new ones has stopped, and models trained on it have nothing fresh to learn from.
So what?
Any business built on a free community feeding it content or traffic is exposed in the same way. Check whether your growth depends on people asking public questions that AI now answers privately. If you sell developer education or tools, assume the new-question pipeline is dry and own your own distribution.