The Uneven Decline of Collective Knowledge Production: Evidence from Stack Overflow After Generative AI

arXiv:2609.36069 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.DL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.DL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/myokyunghan/uneven

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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