Gizmodo

Stack Overflow Lays Off 28% of Staff to Stay on Its ‘Path to Profitability’

It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it’s cutting about 28% of its staff. Stack ...
Gizmodo

Stack Overflow Traffic Drops as Coders Opt for ChatGPT Help Instead

Stack Overflow saw a 14% drop in traffic month over month from March to April 2023, according to data analytics firm SimilarWeb. Reading time 3 minutes No more talking to a stranger on a forum for ...
Wired

Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow's technical content with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant. The deal has sparked controversy among ...
Hosted on MSN

How Stack Overflow's moderation system led to its own downfall

Matthew Tyson's iarticle on InfoWorld, "AI didn't kill Stack Overflow," is a post-mortem on what really happened to the once-thriving software developer Q&A community. While generative AI delivered a ...
Ars Technica

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow’s technical content with OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant. However, the deal has sparked ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not

Users have been barred from deleting answers, and Stack Overflow moderators have restored answers that were changed in protest of its new deal with OpenAI. Users have been barred from deleting answers ...
Wired

Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

Stack Overflow’s programming community will power a version of Google’s Gemini chatbot. It’s part of a new breed of AI data licensing deals with websites seeking a cut of the generative AI boom. Last ...