Jeff Atwood shares a reader's letter on what we lose when LLMs replace community help

If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

Jeff Atwood published a reader email. The writer recalls being deployed during the 2013 Zamboanga siege and relying on strangers on Stack Overflow to finish his coursework. He says an LLM would have given him answers, but not the feeling that someone cared. Atwood argues that as LLMs get stronger, we should make an extra effort to build our own online communities and help each other.