This graph could be seen as misleading because, as a year, 2026 is incomplete.

It's better to go off the monthly chart, which is actually more stark:

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1882532/q...

With the latest complete month, April, having ~3000 questions, a 20% drop on the month before.

Or put another way, around 4 questions per hour.

That's a ghost town.

The writing was on the wall even before the AI disruption