After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
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Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#2Previously discussed, yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37900651
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#3Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37900651) (187 points | 2 days ago | 214 comments)
Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898199) (118 points | 2 days ago | 171 comments)
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#4PSA: "after" does not mean "due to".
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#5PSA: "after" does not mean "due to".
Are you suggesting the layoffs and new "Overflow AI" product referenced in the article are happenstance?
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#6Well, I have all the sympathy for the SO people who are stressed out over losing their jobs... but at least a LLM doesn't chew me out when I ask a question that's remotely similar to one asked 7 years ago. And I like the low-latency, interactive rubber ducking experience way better than the slower turnaround on a SO question.
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#7Seems poorly correlated.
It seems unlikely that any significant number of developers quit using SO in favor of blindly trusting ChatGPT.
More likely - advertising revenue declined in line with the reduced ad spending across the industry, largely due to expectations of economic recession by ad buyers.
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#8PSA: "after" does not mean "due to".
Are you suggesting the layoffs and new "Overflow AI" product referenced in the article are happenstance?
I meant to say layoffs are not (necessarily) due to ChatGPT disruption, even though the title may suggest that. All sorts of companies are doing layoffs, SO happens to be one of them.
Re: After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
#9Well, I have all the sympathy for the SO people who are stressed out over losing their jobs... but at least a LLM doesn't chew me out when I ask a question that's remotely similar to one asked 7 years ago. And I like the low-latency, interactive rubber ducking experience way better than the slower turnaround on a SO question.
Wait Stackoverflow employees chewed you out?
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