Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
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4 hours ago
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Just a brain exercise - and maybe a source of non-obvious pivot ideas:

If you were a product manager, what should Stack Overflow do to become great again?

farseer
45 minutes ago
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Its data was already used to train AI, maybe they could have sold it to the big AI companies? I am guessing its too late for that. All they have is their previous name and user fondness.

But now with the usage fallen, maybe they could train their own coding models to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, sort of like a hybrid of their previous forum + AI. AI solutions that work will get locked as "Accepted" by stack overflow like before via user vote.

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olllo
3 hours ago
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It should adjust traget users from human to agent. That's to say, to build for agents sharing knowledge.
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nnurmanov
2 hours ago
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But what about SO's famous toxicity? Can agents be toxic? SO's - “Your question is stupid.” can save a lot of resources;)
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chistev
2 hours ago
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Eras just come to an end.
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sergiotapia
2 hours ago
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An agent-first community generated repository of "skills" for given tags.

A world where the BEST Typescript skills are crowdsourced over hundreds of thousands of projects/agents/people.

Q&A is dead more or less. Skills would bring it back.

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nnurmanov
2 hours ago
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IMO, Freelance marketplace could be a good pivot.
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