Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
Decoder with Nilay Patel
1 hour 4 minutes
3 weeks ago
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
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.
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.
Links:
2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers | Decoder
OpenAI, Stack Overflow partner to bring technical knowledge to ChatGPT | The Verge
Stack Overflow feeds programmers’ answers to AI whether they like it or not | The Verge
Stack Overflow cuts 28 percent of its staff | TechCrunch
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on Stack Overflow | The Verge
Stack Overflow’s strike is over, but problems persist | Jon Ericson
A new era of Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow
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Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane.
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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
