A new era of Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow
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Extra.

LOL in a lot of ways.

2025 is gonna be interesting.

    • livingcoder@programming.dev
      1·
      20 hours ago

      This looks like the old logo died, laying in a pool of blood. I would like to imagine that they may be subtly acknowledging the end, or at least the art director is.

  • popcar2@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Boy oh boy, what a post. Somehow they managed to make it less clear than ever what they even want to do with the platform, here are my favorite highlights:

    With the use of AI now ubiquitous and ‘AI slop’ rapidly replacing the content we see online, this trust gap is where we think Stack Overflow can play a role. Our renewed vision and purpose moving forward is to be the world’s most vital source for technologists. By providing a trusted human intelligence layer in the age of AI, we believe we can serve technologists with our mission to cultivate community, power learning, and unlock growth.

    That’s some advanced corpo-speak, doubling down on AI but also acknowledging that people don’t like AI-generated answers and providing a “human intelligence layer” to “unlock growth”. Did an AI write this? Lol.

    As AI becomes more pervasive, the efficacy of AI systems will increasingly depend on access to verifiable and accurate knowledge. That will extend to job opportunities too as people look for guidance on exciting career prospects, and this is why we aim to Unlock growth for those who come to Stack Overflow or use our products.

    I can feel the growth unlocking the more of this I read.

    Knowledge Ingestion converts high-value content from tools like SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, and others into structured, trusted knowledge inside a Stack Internal instance. It’s designed to eliminate silos, accelerate onboarding, and scale institutional wisdom.

    I wasn’t sure I wanted to ingest knowledge, but now that I can eliminate all these silos, I’m sure that my team can finally gain some institutional wisdom. Also I’m having a stroke. Help-

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    111·
    3 days ago

    Yeah… This doesn’t sound promising. Refusing to acknowledge the obvious fact that AI and hostile mods have driven away 99% (not an exaggeration!) of their audience. A visual makeover before the change anything. Trying to sell the Q/A database for AI despite the fact that you can download it for free. They even talk up their job advertising product that they inexplicably cancelled a few years ago (btw I found levels.fyi has a pretty good job database if anyone is looking).

    If it were me I would:

    1. Use AI to improve question quality - if people post obviously bad questions get AI to improve it via a conversation.
    2. Make it waaaaay harder to close questions. Like, require 10 votes and allow the asker to reopen it for free once.
    3. Make it so questions can’t go below 0 points.
    4. Make it impossible to close as duplicate. You should be able to mark questions as possible duplicates (and the asker can say “yes it is”) but if they don’t it should stay open.
    5. Maybe even make it impossible to close questions at all. What actual purpose does it solve apart from driving people away?

    Apart from the AI that’s all stuff they should have done 10 years ago.

    It’s probably too late anyway.