Coding Horror: If We Do Not Stop to Help Each Other, What Do We Become?
signa11 · hn · 2026-09-27
Jeff Atwood, founder of Coding Horror, reflects on the value of mutual aid in tech communities as AI reshapes how developers get help.
He notes that Q&A sites like Stack Overflow are withering as more people ask large language models directly, weakening the ongoing accumulation of public knowledge.
Atwood argues that helping others shapes both community and character, and that letting this culture fade would make the entire tech ecosystem colder and more closed off.
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