Recently been thinking about the shift in how we seek answers online. Stack Overflow is a case in point—once the go-to place where developers asked questions and got real human answers. Now? People just ask ChatGPT directly.

It's wild how technology's role has flipped. A decade or so back, the internet connected us and made things more social. Platforms thrived because they brought people together around shared problems and solutions. Questions were inherently social acts—you asked, others answered, knowledge flowed between humans.

But we're hitting a different inflection point now. AI doesn't just facilitate connection anymore. It's becoming the connection itself. Why wait for someone on Stack Overflow to respond when an AI gives you an answer instantly? The efficiency is hard to argue with, but something's getting lost in that trade-off. The social element that used to define how we learned and shared knowledge is quietly disappearing.