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

"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid." The post AI Has Basically ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not

Users have been barred from deleting answers, and Stack Overflow moderators have restored answers that were changed in protest of its new deal with OpenAI. Users have been barred from deleting answers ...
InfoWorld

AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow

According to Dev Class, the decline is primarily due to the increased use of AI, but many users have also grown tired of ...
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 ...
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow confirms layoffs affecting 28% of workforce

Stack Overflow, the 15-year-old web institution for programmers that is noted for its forums where thorny coding questions are answered by the website's community, is laying off 28% of its workforce, ...
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 ...