HN,
If everyone is using LLMs to solve problems, in a few years, won’t LLMs run out of content to mine? In short, how can the general dumbing down of LLMs and degradation of publicly accessible content used to solve problems be avoided over the long term?
For questions about events and problems that arose after 2025, where would LLMs get information to solve those questions? There is little incentive to ask questions on stackoverflow, reddit and random forums. LLMs are not allowing interactions between people that result in one person solving a problem for another person, so they would have to actually be smart enough to understand the problems and solve them instead of regurgitating existing information.
Is this sustainable in the least? Is the snake eating its own tail?
