Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
Decoder with Nilay Patel
- Published
- December 15, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 4m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 7, 2026
Discusses openai.
Summary
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 s…
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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 m
Themes
- openai