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Stack Overflow lost 99% of its questions — and the reason is more uncomfortable than 'AI killed it'

The number that made me stop scrolling

There’s a chart that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week, and I’ve now looked at it maybe forty times, and it still does something unpleasant to my stomach every single time.

The number at the top of the story is this: Stack …

Better a flat earther who reasons than an expert who can't explain

The paradox of debate

Picture two people in a room. Someone asks them whether the Earth is round.

The first one says, “Yes, obviously.” That’s it. No argument, no explanation. Pure certainty. If you ask them why, they shrug or parrot back what they learned in school without being …