Stack Overflow questions per year

Stack Overflow getting fewer questions while American hot sauce sells more bottles. The negative correlation is so neat it sounds like a stand-up routine. The programmer is no longer asking. The dinner is, however, getting spicier.

Stack Overflow questions peaked around 2014 and have declined sharply since 2022, accelerated by GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and the broader LLM coding-assistant wave that absorbed simple how-do-I queries. US hot sauce market revenue grew from about 2 to over 3 billion dollars in the same window as Sriracha, Cholula, and the new Asian-condiment wave expanded the category. Two completely independent lines on opposite paths sharing a window because the late 2010s and early 2020s changed two unrelated things: how programmers ask questions and how Americans season food.

AI absorbed one habit. The dinner table absorbed another. Both decades end with new defaults.