They have recently received a lot of attention with their decrease in traffic due to devs, especially more junior ones leveraging ChatGPT for writing code. They have recently announced OverflowAI as well as a bunch of cool innovations such as the Stack plugin for IDE (basically a stack add-on in Visual Studio, pretty similar with GitHub copilot) semantic search powered by AI, posting on the forums via GenAI (when the question is deemed unique) and more. Might by the pivot from public-facing to more of an enterprise experience (Overflow for Teams) but still a bit ambiguous, honestly. Curious to hear what y’all think about this. TC: $350k
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The scary part is when the one AI opinion becomes the single answer. Stack for better or for worse has conversations around the subject, and the selected answer is not always the right answer for your issue.
I cannot agree more. The 1:1 interaction with an AI without the community aspect might work for very senior developers, but not for everyone. I personally like the direction Stack is embracing in the light of AI. Augmenting their search, being there at the developer environment, in the context and more.
Not even. Case point I'm new to the project and we use this x JavaScript library that's giving me trouble. I go on stack and ask for issues. There's this old timer that gives an answer that works with version 3 of the thing, dialect version 99 and everyone else down voted him into oblivion, because it's 2023 and everyone is using version 20. Well guess what, our inhouse version is a rebrand of perhaps version 1 that someone copied over, corpified through infosec and stripped out the version, then, left the Corp and no one touched it since. Now I've been through enough battles to piece together the clues, based on all the reading, but guess what's not going to help me? The correct answer that everyone up voted and that the AI gladly regurgitates.