Boing Boing on MSNOpinion

Stack Overflow is dead, and its toxic community helped kill it

For over a decade, Stack Overflow was the place where programmers went to find answers. If you Googled a coding error, you'd ...
Business Insider

Layoffs hit coding community Stack Overflow as software engineers increasingly shift to AI for help

Coding community Stack Overflow announced on Monday that it's laying off 28% of its staff. Its traffic fell earlier this year as coders shift to AI for answers, Insider previously reported. Many ...
Futurism

Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

Stack Overflow, the go-to coding resource and forum, is laying off more than a hundred workers totaling 28 percent of its staff — just as AI-powered coding tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are threatening ...
InfoWorld

Stack Overflow opens API to Google’s Gemini

Overflow API will allow the generative AI model to mine the Stack Overflow knowledge base when providing coding assistance to developers in Google Cloud. Stack Overflow, the popular ...
The Verge

OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT

More information from Stack Overflow will appear in ChatGPT, and Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models for its products. More information from Stack Overflow will appear in ChatGPT, and Stack Overflow ...
Futurism on MSN

AI has basically killed Stack Overflow

"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid." The post AI Has Basically ...
Digit

Stack Overflow is dying: Blame it on ChatGPT and AI coding tools

The very AI models that are destroying Stack Overflow were built on top of it. LLMs learned to code by ingesting the millions of high-quality, human-curated answers that Stack Overflow users spent ...