totaling 28 percent of its staff — just as AI-powered coding tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT are threatening to reshape the industry.experienced diminished website traffic
while coders have flocked to ChatGPT, Microsoft's GPT-4 powered Github Copilot, and similar coding tools that use machine learning instead of advice by humans.and moving to charge tech companies like OpenAI that have built AI models using data from Stack Overflow's website.in August. "People who are leveraging our data for LLM purposes, we took a position several months ago that they should engage with us.
"We should be able to be paid for that data," Chandrasekar said. "The large companies have proactively reached out to us, and we're effectively engaged in those conversations at the moment." It'll be interesting to see if Stack Overflow can successfully adapt to the AI tech boom era, which has other companies like
Of course, there's a looming question that tech companies haven't quite managed to address: if there are fewer coders, and hence less human-made data,