The people who routinely post the best examples will rack up points as people vote for their work. But, Hanlon says, that's not the real reason people have historically contributed to Stack Overflow.

According to Stack Overflow’s latest survey, the majority of developers don’t have degrees in computer science, for example.

In Stack Overflow’s case, LLM developers are getting their hands on data through a mix of dumps, APIs, and scraping, Chandrasekar says, all of which today can be done for free.