"Stack Overflow, if you're not familiar with it, is the question and answer forum for developers writing code. Before the AI explosion, it was a thriving community where developers asked for and received help with complicated programming problems. But if there's one thing AI is good at, it's helping developers write code - and not just write code, but develop entire working apps. On top of that, Stack Overflow's forums themselves became flooded with AI-generated answers, bringing down the quality of the community as a whole."
"You'll hear Prashanth explain that it was clear more or less from the jump how big a deal ChatGPT was going to be, and his response was pure Decoder bait. 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."
ChatGPT's launch and the generative AI boom immediately disrupted Stack Overflow's core community by enabling AI to write code and by flooding forums with AI-generated answers that lowered quality. The CEO declared a company emergency, reassigned about 10 percent of staff to develop solutions, and reorganized structure to address the change. Stack Overflow transitioned toward an enterprise SaaS model offering AI-based solutions integrated with companies' internal systems. The company expanded a data licensing business selling community data to AI firms. The platform continues to attract developers for complex, thorny problems where human expertise and nuanced answers remain necessary.
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