Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it!—Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
It's almost as if there's an entire class of (inordinately wealthy) people who have no reason to exist in the capacity that they do.
CEO's are so important to the functioning of a product that they don't even have to fucking understand the product itself. Why not give them shitloads of money?
I never pass up an opportunity to link this article: CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?
Stack Overflow has a CEO? WTF for? It's a repository of information. All the LLMs have already ripped a copy of the site, so where were they planning to generate revenue?
I hope someone starts a version and integrates it with activitypub and then users can donate towards the hosting costs.
Stack Overflow is supposed to be the wiki of developers, not a fucking business. I hate these greedy fucks. "let's make money from other people's time and effort" 🤮🤮🤮
There is https://codidact.com/ which is an open source alternative to Stack Overflow
Thanks for sharing
Have they incorporated the data from StackExchange?
It seems you're unclear on what a CEO is. Even non profit organizations have CEOs (though stackoverflow is very much a for-profit company). A CEO is just the head decision maker in an organization.
At the end of the day, SO has server hosting costs, and they have to cover those costs somehow. That makes them a business.
Ah, wonderful capitalism working as intended. Everything comes down to money.
Stack Overflow is supposed to be the wiki of developers, not a fucking business.
Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood founded it, and it was sold to Prosus, a Netherlands-based consumer internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for $1.8 billion.
I guess someone would like some of that money back.
I wish resources like this were a public benefit corporation vs a for profit.
Federated also works.
I've found that the case for most CEOs in technology which is why I call them techbros. Arguably, they don't even know business all that well either.
Of course not. They aren't technologists, they're capitalists. Their primary concern is capital.
Didn’t even know there was a stack overflow strike.
This one actually I don't understand. SO has a robust voting system to turn down bad answers. Also, many questions suffer from no answer. So, from the OP's perspective AI assistance is a positive.
The resistance indeed comes from human moderators and answer-ers. And they are ridiculed by (often novice) OPs on Reddit etc.