After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Stack Overflow used to be every developer's favorite site for coding help, but with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, chatbots can offer more specific help than a 5-year-old forum post ever could.

While no chatbot is 100 percent reliable, code has the unique ability to be instantly verified by just testing it in your IDE (integrated development environment), which makes it an ideal use case for chatbots.

Today, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff.

Of course, the great irony of ChatGPT hurting Stack Overflow is that a great deal of the chatbot's development prowess comes from scraping sites like Stack Overflow.

OpenAI is working on web crawler controls for ChatGPT, which would let sites like Stack Overflow opt out of crawling.

As we've seen with chatbots convincing each other that you can "melt eggs," Chandrasekar has argued that sites like Stack Overflow are essential for chatbots, saying they need "to be trained on something that's progressing knowledge forward.

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Feels almost the wrong way around, like they should be hiring more people because their data has become more valuable due to AI.
I attempted to be active on Stack Overflow so much but I'm not a fan of many things and lately every issue I've had had either extremely outdated replies or I could a way better explanation reading documentation.
I also can't understand how something like SO is for-profit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Stack Overflow used to be every developer's favorite site for coding help, but with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, chatbots can offer more specific help than a 5-year-old forum post ever could.
While no chatbot is 100 percent reliable, code has the unique ability to be instantly verified by just testing it in your IDE (integrated development environment), which makes it an ideal use case for chatbots.
Today, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff.
Of course, the great irony of ChatGPT hurting Stack Overflow is that a great deal of the chatbot's development prowess comes from scraping sites like Stack Overflow.
OpenAI is working on web crawler controls for ChatGPT, which would let sites like Stack Overflow opt out of crawling.
As we've seen with chatbots convincing each other that you can "melt eggs," Chandrasekar has argued that sites like Stack Overflow are essential for chatbots, saying they need "to be trained on something that's progressing knowledge forward.
The original article contains 276 words, the summary contains 168 words. Saved 39%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!