Stack Overflow confirms layoffs affecting 28% of workforce

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Stack Overflow, THE 15 years the Web institution For programmers that East note For It is forums Or thorny coding questions are answered by THE websites community, East laid disabled 28% of It is Workforce, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announcement today.

THE business did not specify Exactly how a lot of It is effective would be be impacted, but It is LinkedIn page noted he has between 501-1000 employees, And 769 on LinkedIn, SO probably around 215 people.

In A short Blog job, Chandrasekar said that "This year We took a lot not has spend less," without elaborate on What those not were, but that "Unfortunately, those changes were not that's enough."

Chandrasekar Also quoted "in progress threats has customer budgets shift due has THE macroeconomic pressures impactful THE entire technology industry. »

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Learn More What impact did ChatGPT And GitHub Co-pilot to have?

While Chandrasekar, neither A spokesperson reached by VentureBeat, elaborated on What other pressures could be focused towards THE business, observers on X (Previously Twitter) were fast has indicate THE finger has OpenAI ChatGPT, THE chatbot base on It is big language model (LLM) GPT-3.5 And GPT-4/V.

OpenAI Also makes Manuscript, A programming specific LLM base on Google Tag but qualified on coded extracts And designed has help software developers generate And complete code.

Laura Wendel, A to start up founder between London And Germany, job that "This can be THE First of all big Fire directly due has AI”, And quoted "people ask ChatGPT instead of Stack Overflow" For answers has their questions, assignment A chart showing A abrupt decline In Stack Overflow page views beginning In April 2023, When THE chatbot was earn public momentum.

Earlier In THE summer, In June 2023, Google deep mind searcher Mahesh Sathiamoorthy published A similar chart on X Also showing A collapse In Stack Overflow traffic of about 50%.

HAS THE time, companion Googler Francis Cholet of opinion on Sathiamoorthy's job that by Microsoft "GitHub Co-pilot And LLM chatbots are provoking A big drop In StackOverflow traffic. What is this fascinating about he East that these systems work largely THANKS has THE user generated content Since StackOverflow. East This back loop sustainable ? »

THE big question: how East Overflow AI TO DO?

In July, just A month After This job And exchange, Stack Overflow announcement It is own developer tool LLM chatbot product,