alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't matter. Even if it were the most friendly community ever, as long as their core value were the same - answering programming questions that with clear answers - it would have been replaced by today's AI completely. It's irrelevant today how bad GPT3.5 once was.
It does because the claims that AI killed it are wrong. Would have died from AI anyway probably yes but it doesn't make the AI scapegoat any more true. Why do you have such an interest in blaming AI that you argue from a false position just because it might have happened?