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 ...
The Gazette

Community help kept overflow shelter open overtime in Cedar Rapids

With spring in the air, the Linn County Continuum of Care Overflow Shelter would like to thank Cedar Rapids and all its partners. Linn County began operating the current Overflow Shelter within the ...
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 ...
Business Insider

Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world

Stack Overflow, an online community for software coders, has seen traffic fall since GPT-4 came out. Some AI models that compete against Stack Overflow were partly trained on the company's data. Its ...
Business Insider

Stack Overflow, the developer site that just sold for $1.8 billion, will start letting companies pay to build community

Several weeks post acquisition news, Stack Overflow launches a paid product called "Collectives." The product lets companies pay for a custom homepage and other community-centric features. Some ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow launches AI Assist chatbot for developers

Stack Exchange Inc., the company behind the leading developer resource Stack Overflow, today announced the public launch of its new AI Assist feature. The company says it provides users with access to ...
ZDNet

Stack Overflow uses AI to give programmers new access to community knowledge

For years, if you had questions about C pointers, JavaScript operators, or how inheritance works in Python, your first destination was Stack Overflow. So, how important has Stack Overflow been? As the ...
Wired

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

Developing the AI systems behind tools such as ChatGPT and the image generator Dall-E costs hundreds of millions of dollars—and it’s about to get more expensive. OpenAI, Google, and other companies ...
Business Wire

Stack Overflow Introduces Collectives™, Brings Developers and Technology Organizations Together to Build Faster Through Community

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Stack Overflow announced the launch of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, communities where technology organizations can directly engage with developers who use their ...