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 ...
Futurism on MSN

AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform ...
Wired

Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year

For 15 years, Stack Overflow has been the main hub for discussions of computer programming and development. It’s where users who are facing a tricky conundrum or are hitting a wall in their code can ...
ZDNet

Stack Overflow temporarily bans answers from OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot

Stack Overflow, a site where developers can ask and answer coding questions, has temporarily banned the use of text generated from ChatGPT, a chatbot released by Open AI last week. ChatGPT is based on ...

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

For nearly two decades, the ritual was sacred. You hit a coding wall, you Googled the error message, and you clicked the ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow to provide coding knowledge for OpenAI models

Stack Exchange Inc., the operator of the popular Stack Overflow coding forum, today announced a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. Under the deal, the large language model developer will gain ...
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 ...