Stack Overflow is dying: How ChatGPT and AI coding tools killed the internet’s developer town square

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

VS Code Tool to Lead Stack Overflow's New 'OverflowAI' Effort

Stack Overflow announced its own generative AI initiative called OverflowAI, in which a new Visual Studio Code extension will play a central role. The main idea behind the OverflowAI program is to use ...
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow CEO teases generative AI tools, addresses moderator protest

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar, in a recent wide-ranging ...
TechCrunch

Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider

As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday revealed a new set of products that aims to position it as a valuable part of the enterprise AI stack. This new version of the ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow survey finds developers are ready to use AI tools — even if they don’t fully trust them

The coding Q&A site is embracing generative AI, but its moderators are on strike over its policies. Its annual developer survey reflects this tension over AI coding. The coding Q&A site is embracing ...
ZDNet

How Stack Overflow is adding value to human answers in the age of AI

The question-and-answer site Stack Overflow was founded 17 years ago to allow programmers -- human programmers -- to post questions about programming problems and get answers from a community of ...
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code

More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical ...
TechRepublic

Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey: Are developers using AI?

Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey: Are developers using AI? Your email has been sent Are developers using artificial intelligence? What are the top programming languages? Get answers to these ...
TechRepublic

Stack Overflow: Stark Increase in Developers’ Distrust of AI Tools

Stack Overflow: Stark Increase in Developers’ Distrust of AI Tools Your email has been sent While 84% of developers now use AI tools, 46% say they do not trust the accuracy of the tool’s output, ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on ...
Ars Technica

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with growing pains emerging along the ...
InfoWorld

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow

I can remember when the great Jeff Atwood (User #1) went on Twitter and asked people to suggest names for a website that would be useful for developers. He was vague about what that site would do ...