Sure, this meme is funny, but in the age of AI there’s a bigger question starting to loom:
When we stop asking and answering in public, what happens to the shared knowledge base future developers (and future AI tools) rely on?
Stack Overflow may have been famously, uh, “character-building” for anyone brave enough to ask a question, but it also gave us something incredibly valuable: public debugging, weird edge cases, battle-tested answers, and comment threads where the real fix was always hiding three replies down.
It’s worth remembering that the robots learned a lot of that ancient magic from humans posting, correcting, arguing and documenting with their real, flesh-and-blood, Cheeto-dust-encrusted, human typing fingers.
So don’t forget to answer a question in public sometimes! Write up that weird fix you found. Leave a breadcrumb for the next dev Googling in a cold sweat at 11:47pm.
In the meantime, let’s scroll on and see what’s new in the wonderful, weird world of WordPress.
