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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 ...
Techzine Europe

What does the drought at Stack Overflow teach us?

Software application developer code advice portal Stack Overflow has reportedly experienced a significant downturn in usage. The December 2025 “questions The rise of developer code-bots & chatbots ...
OfficeChai

Graph Shows How StackOverflow Usage Has Collapsed Since The Advent Of AI

Even as vibe coding becomes mainstream with AI instantly writing code that earlier human developers used to agonize over, ...
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 ...
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 ...
New York Magazine

The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow: How a Website You’ve Never Heard of Is Holding the Web Together

Let’s say you’re relatively new to coding. Maybe you’re studying it in college, or you’ve just started at an entry-level position after attending a five-week ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

Stack Overflow adds a free tier to its fast-growing Teams service

Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions). But over the course of the last year ...