The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in
It’s worth to mention that the StackOverflow survey referenced does not include many countries with also great/genius developers, including Belarus, Russia, China, Iran…
There are related cases raised on Meta scopes: Developer Survey 2025 is, apparently, region blocked…
Apparently, while I’ve being employed in security as software engineer for at least 19 years now, I’ve never ever considered these trendy LLM/“AI” all serious, and still do not.
Sorry, I have literally no interest in all of it that makes you dependent on it, atrophies mind, degrades research and social skills, and negates self-confidencen with respect to other authors, their work, and attributions. Nor any of my colleagues in military and those I know better in person.
Constant research, general IDEs like JetBrains’s, IDA Pro, Sublime Text, VS Code, etc. backed by forums, chats, and Communities, is absolutely enough for the accountable and fun work in our teams, who manage to keep in adequate deadlines.
Nor will use any LLM in my work, art, or research… I prefer people, communication, discoveries, effort, creativity, and human art…
I just disable it everywhere possible, and will do all my life. The close case to my environment was VS Code, and hopefully there’s no reason to build it from source since they still leave built-in options to disable it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79534407/5113030 (How can I disable GitHub Copilot in VS Code?..)
Isn’t it just inadequate to not think and develop your mind, and let alone pass control of your environment to a yet another model or “advanced T9” of unknown source of unknown iteration.
In pentesting, random black-box IO, medicine experimental unverified intel, log data approximation why not? But in environment control, education, art or programming, fine art… No, never ^^
Meanwhile… so freaking, incredibly many developers, artists are left without attribution, respect, gratitude…
So many people atrophy their skils for learning, contribution, researching, accumulation, self-organization…
So much human precious time is wasted…
So much gets devalued…
The time will show… and just a few actually accountable will recover only, probably…
This is so heartache… sorrowful…
I asked ChatGPT to correct your grammar, and here is what I got back. I hope it helps.
It is worth mentioning that the referenced Stack Overflow survey does not include many countries that also have excellent developers, including Russia.
I have never seriously used, do not use now, and will not use any LLM in my work, art, or research.
I prefer people, communication, discovery, effort, creativity, and human art.
Meanwhile, so incredibly many developers and artists are left without attribution, respect, or gratitude.
So many people atrophy their skills for learning, contribution, research, accumulation, and self-organization.
So much precious human time is wasted.
So much is devalued.
Time will show, and only a few who are actually accountable will probably recover.
This is heartbreaking… sorrowful…
It’s worth to mention that the StackOverflow survey referenced does not include many countries with also great/genius developers, including Belarus, Russia, China, Iran…
There are related cases raised on Meta scopes: Developer Survey 2025 is, apparently, region blocked…
Apparently, while I’ve being employed in security as software engineer for at least 19 years now, I’ve never ever considered these trendy LLM/“AI” all serious, and still do not.
Sorry, I have literally no interest in all of it that makes you dependent on it, atrophies mind, degrades research and social skills, and negates self-confidencen with respect to other authors, their work, and attributions. Nor any of my colleagues in military and those I know better in person.
Constant research, general IDEs like JetBrains’s, IDA Pro, Sublime Text, VS Code, etc. backed by forums, chats, and Communities, is absolutely enough for the accountable and fun work in our teams, who manage to keep in adequate deadlines.
Nor will use any LLM in my work, art, or research… I prefer people, communication, discoveries, effort, creativity, and human art…
I just disable it everywhere possible, and will do all my life. The close case to my environment was VS Code, and hopefully there’s no reason to build it from source since they still leave built-in options to disable it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79534407/5113030 (How can I disable GitHub Copilot in VS Code?..)
Isn’t it just inadequate to not think and develop your mind, and let alone pass control of your environment to a yet another model or “advanced T9” of unknown source of unknown iteration.
In pentesting, random black-box IO, medicine experimental unverified intel, log data approximation why not? But in environment control, education, art or programming, fine art… No, never ^^
Meanwhile… so freaking, incredibly many developers, artists are left without attribution, respect, gratitude…
So many people atrophy their skils for learning, contribution, researching, accumulation, self-organization…
So much human precious time is wasted…
So much gets devalued…
The time will show… and just a few actually accountable will recover only, probably…
This is so heartache… sorrowful…
I asked ChatGPT to correct your grammar, and here is what I got back. I hope it helps.
Thank you, but I am sorry, I will not read the output of the LLM. I’ll re-recheck the grammar manually.
Its still not very decipherable
Couldn’t correct it yourself? What’s wrong, your brain don’t working so good?