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 ...
Techzine Europe

Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are ...
InfoWorld

What comes after Stack Overflow?

The future is unknown as developers start taking advice from machines rather than peers. How will we keep the LLMs honest? For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for ...
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 ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and ...
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 ...