What Happens When We Stop Asking (opens in new tab)

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...