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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Tool to Lead Stack Overflow's New 'OverflowAI' Effort

Stack Overflow announced its own generative AI initiative called OverflowAI, in which a new Visual Studio Code extension will play a central role. The main idea behind the OverflowAI program is to use ...
Visual Studio Magazine

AI-Driven Stack Overflow Bot Answers Programming Questions Within VS Code Editor

Visual Studio Code developers can now leverage the power of Microsoft's AI-driven Bot Framework with a new extension developed by Microsoft and Stack Overflow, the popular programming Q&A site. 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 Killed Stack Overflow appeared first on Futurism.
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Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

Stack Overflow, the go-to coding resource and forum, is laying off more than a hundred workers totaling 28 percent of its staff — just as AI-powered coding tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are threatening ...
Wired

Stack Overflow to Devs: Help Us Make Code Better by Example

The number of new tools designed to make life easier for software developers has exploded in recent years. New programming frameworks help you snap applications together more quickly, while open ...
idw

Outdated code snippets from Stack Overflow jeopardise software security

A common practice among software developers is to use so-called code snippets from the platform Stack Overflow. A study by CISPA researcher Alfusainey Jallow now shows that this can lead to security ...