Stack Overflow’s traffic has been in decline, and the convenient narrative is to blame it on LLMs.

When you find a potential cause for a problem, it’s often sane to ask if it’s really the cause or yet another symptom, and if the cause of your problem and the symptom isn’t something else.

I feel like this fits here - people would rather ask a ChatGPT the same questions because SO is not useful. And it is not useful for human factors.

A LLM won’t have over-reactive moderation trying to narrow down the scope of the discussion into near uselessness. Nor it will barrage you with a plethora of unrelated questions that boils down to “you’re asking how to do X. Why do you want to do X?”, and don’t solve the question.

OP’s revenge was petty, but it’s a sign of frustration. People are consistently frustrated with SO. Because they don’t get the answers that they want, but even a hallu-driven LLM at least “tries” to.