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

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar was last on the show in 2022 — just one month before ChatGPT launched and upended literally everything for Stack Overflow in a deeply existential way. 

He called a company emergency, reallocated about 10 percent of the staff to figure out solutions to the ChatGPT problem, and made some pretty huge decisions about structure and organization to navigate that change — all of it pure Decoder bait.

Links: 

• 2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow
• The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers | Decoder
• OpenAI, Stack Overflow partner to bring technical knowledge to ChatGPT | The Verge
• Stack Overflow feeds programmers’ answers to AI whether they like it or not | The Verge
• Stack Overflow cuts 28 percent of its staff | TechCrunch
• AI-generated answers temporarily banned on Stack Overflow | The Verge
• Stack Overflow’s strike is over, but problems persist | Jon Ericson
• A new era of Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow

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