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After ChatGPT Disruption, Stack Overflow Lays Off 28 Percent of Staff

posted by hubie on Wednesday October 18 2023, @09:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the your-ban-is-now-irrelevant dept.

Both Freeman and upstart wrote in with:

After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff:

Stack Overflow used to be every developer's favorite site for coding help, but with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, chatbots can offer more specific help than a 5-year-old forum post ever could.

[...] You might think of Stack Overflow as "just a forum," but the company is working on a direct answer to ChatGPT in the form of "Overflow AI," which was announced in July. Stack Overflow's profitability plan includes cutting costs, and that's the justification for the layoffs. Stack Overflow doubled its headcount in 2022 with 525 people. ChatGPT launched at the end of 2022, making for unfortunate timing.

[... ] OpenAI is working on web crawler controls for ChatGPT, which would let sites like Stack Overflow opt out of crawling. [...] Chandrasekar has argued that sites like Stack Overflow are essential for chatbots, saying they need "to be trained on something that's progressing knowledge forward. They need new knowledge to be created."

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday October 18 2023, @12:22PM (3 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Wednesday October 18 2023, @12:22PM (#1329254)

    with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, chatbots can offer more specific help than a 5-year-old forum post ever could

    Don't count on it to offer better help to a truly difficult problem than a 5-year-old.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Wednesday October 18 2023, @01:28PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday October 18 2023, @01:28PM (#1329266) Journal

    Forum post, they said forum post, nothing was being said about humans. Though as an aside, that 5 year old forum post was created by a human. The human that created the post was also likely greater than 5 years old.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2023, @03:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2023, @03:23PM (#1329288)
      Are you an inferior AI?

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday October 18 2023, @01:39PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday October 18 2023, @01:39PM (#1329269)

    Don't count on it to offer better help to a truly difficult problem than a 5-year-old.

    I can see why corporate IT helpdesks and MSPs are so nervous about chatbots. The bar is being raised on them.