Communications of the ACM

AI Shakes Volunteer Sites

The generosity of strangers has long powered online communities. Spaces like Stack Overflow, GitHub, curl, OpenSSL, Wikipedia ...

Few questions, outdated answers: Stack Overflow is in crisis

Participation on Stack Overflow has plunged. The community blames the decline less on AI than on strict moderation.
VICE

Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

Volunteer moderators at Stack Overflow, a popular forum for software developers to ask and answer questions run by Stack Exchange, have issued a general strike over the company’s new AI content policy ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not

Users have been barred from deleting answers, and Stack Overflow moderators have restored answers that were changed in protest of its new deal with OpenAI. Users have been barred from deleting answers ...
InfoWorld

What comes after Stack Overflow?

The future is unknown as developers start taking advice from machines rather than peers. How will we keep the LLMs honest? For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for ...
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code

More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical ...
VentureBeat

Developers aren’t worried that gen AI will steal their jobs, Stack Overflow survey reveals

Generative AI is having a dramatic impact on many industries, including software development. In a revealing snapshot of the global software development ecosystem, developer knowledge platform Stack ...