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Claude is better than Stack Overflow for getting answers to programming questions in every way, except that it’s worse for the environment, worse for developer communication skills, worse for the long-term health of open source projects, benefits worse people, etc.

Travis Brown

@travisbrown.dev

You don’t have to think that the “Claude is better” part of this sentence is a good thing (I don’t), or even that it’s an interesting fact (I do, kind of), but at this point it’s irresponsible to pretend it isn’t accurate.

9/3/26, 5:17 pm0 reposts27 likes

yitzi2.bsky.social

@yitzi2.bsky.social

10 Mar

It is, but that may say more about Stack Overflow than it does about Claude.

Travis Brown

@travisbrown.dev

9 Mar

I don’t want to read journalism written by Claude, I don’t want to see movies created by AI, I don’t want AI therapy, etc., but writing software is pretty easy compared to all of those things, and it’s just a fact that generative AI is pretty good at it.