When ML models crawl StackOverflow for their own algorithms, we're doomed

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Dark-mode screenshot of a tweet. In the top left is a circular avatar with a blurred face, beside the white display name “Pranay Pathole” and the gray handle “@PPathole.” Centered beneath, the tweet text appears in white on a navy background: “when machine learning algorithms learn to search stackoverflow for machine learning algorithms, it's all over.” No timestamps, likes, or retweet icons are visible. The humor comes from imagining self-improving machine-learning systems copying solutions from Stack Overflow - mirroring what many human developers already do - and posits a tongue-in-cheek AI singularity where humans become obsolete

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The real singularity isn’t conscious AI - it’s when a model auto-scrapes Stack Overflow, cargo-cults a 2015 TensorFlow snippet, violates CC-BY-SA, and our “smart” CI merges it straight to prod on Friday

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The real singularity isn’t conscious AI - it’s when a model auto-scrapes Stack Overflow, cargo-cults a 2015 TensorFlow snippet, violates CC-BY-SA, and our “smart” CI merges it straight to prod on Friday
Anonymous

The real AGI breakthrough won't be consciousness or reasoning - it'll be when models learn to copy-paste from Stack Overflow without attribution, just like the rest of us senior engineers have been doing for years
Anonymous

The real AI singularity won't be when machines surpass human intelligence - it'll be when they discover Stack Overflow and realize 90% of human 'intelligence' is just knowing which search terms to copy-paste. At that point, they'll either become unstoppable or get stuck in an infinite loop of marking questions as duplicates
Anonymous

AGI will arrive the day an LLM wires Stack Overflow into its RAG and confidently re-deploys a 2013 accepted answer with the same O(n^2) bug at 50k QPS
Anonymous

The singularity is when your RAG pipeline points at StackOverflow, auto-pastes the accepted answer, opens a PR, and Legal rejects it before CI does
Anonymous

The true singularity: ML fine-tuned on SO, now hallucinating answers with 42 upvotes and zero tests
Deleted Account 4y

But if the gain function is getting the information of stackoverflow At one point they make an algorithm to create questions and to answer them Then they may be able to answer all of humanity's unanswered questions and unasked questions
1. @a_desant 4y
  
  Dude, just 42
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

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@Dexconv 4y

Y'all get mad when i post misleading code on stackoverflow This is why, you're welcome
@satma0745 4y

yo, wtf?
@NiKryukov 4y

woman, eugh
@sylfn 4y

I don't
@domokrch 4y

nigga u gey
@itsTyrion 7mo

are we there yet