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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."
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Vocal Minority on Thursday October 19 2023, @02:16AM
I find the free version of ChatGPT very useful for writing code - but I am not a software engineer and only program occasionally for very specific tasks. I find that if I ask for something very specific, say manipulating a specific data structure in a way that I am not familiar with, it is very good and seldom wrong - although the code it produces can look a little odd. If I ask it to do something big and complex, it almost always fails in ways that are difficult to debug.