Posts to programmer Q&A sites have dropped below 1,000 per month. Perhaps questions are no longer 'for everyone' | Future Speculation #11

New questions on Stack Overflow have dropped from approximately 140,000 in October 2020 to 969 in September 2026New questions ...
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Stack Overflow's question volume will fall 78% year-over-year by December 2025, likely due to developers switching to AI tools

A 2025 survey by Stack Overflow found that 84% of developers said they were using or planned to use AI tools, up from 76% the previous year. A user on the social site Hacker News commented, 'The ...

Few questions, outdated answers: Stack Overflow is in crisis

Participation on Stack Overflow has plunged. The community blames the decline less on AI than on strict moderation.
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow jumps into the generative AI world with OverflowAI

A generation of developers has grown up relying on Stack Overflow's community approach to answering technical questions and getting a mix of responses. That model is getting disrupted today with the ...
ZDNet

Stack Overflow uses AI to give programmers new access to community knowledge

For years, if you had questions about C pointers, JavaScript operators, or how inheritance works in Python, your first destination was Stack Overflow. So, how important has Stack Overflow been? As the ...
Digit

Stack Overflow is dying: Blame it on ChatGPT and AI coding tools

Stack Overflow wasn’t just a help desk; it was a living archive of new problems. If everyone stops posting questions because AI solves them privately, the public “knowledge stream” dries up. We are ...