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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
Description: Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar was last on the show in 2022 — just one month before ChatGPT launched and upended literally everything for Stack Overflow in a deeply existential way.Â
He called a company emergency, reallocated about 10 percent of the staff to figure out solutions to the ChatGPT problem, and made some pretty huge decisions about structure and organization to navigate that change — all of it pure Decoder bait.
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2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow
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