Maybe not any more, but it used to. Back in the day I used to spend a lot of time on places like /r/3dprinting and /r/raspberry_pi answering people’s questions. It felt fulfilling and I certainly was not the only one spending my evenings doing it. But that was years ago.

And nothing to do with Reddit making money by charging Google for API access to train its AI models.

Random Access Mushroom

Low bar of entry compared to everything else back in the day. Also quite fast being written in C. Then Laravel came around and it exploded in popularity. And of course you have WordPress that back in the day allowed everyone to get a site up and running. Not just blogs, due to the vast amount of plugins. There are more, butI think those are the biggest reasons.

Short lived certificates force sysadmins to automate the renewal process. This prevents expired certificates due to forgetting the manual renewal.

That was already the case with the 90 day ones. No sane person is going to be manually renewing certificates every 3 months.

That, and also so many unfinished projects that would likely never had gotten finished due to lost motivation, can finally get the boost they need to get past the finish line. Especially if a project is like 80% done, you can first do a pass where you instruct the LLM to figure out your conventions and coding patterns and your coding style in general. Document them, and any new code it writes to make sure it follows them. This way, anything new added doesn’t feel foreign and it’s easy to understand. Not to mention that LLMs can also do the boring but useful part of writing documentation.