Is it too intimidating, when those seeking help are shot down for not asking questions in quite the right way? That said, the strict application of rules on the platform leads naturally into another question. It is a fair point, that the community around Stack Overflow is not like the black box of AI coding. “It is self-regulating, there are certain rules and standards, and moderators, all for a reason, and those rule sets are governed very heavily.” What if someone does post copyright code? “This is the power of the community,” he says. I’d rather not have people posting on the public forum’.” Because companies came to us in 2017 and said, ‘60%, 70% of what I want to collaborate on is private to my company. “That’s also the genesis of Stack Overflow Teams, which is the private version of Stack Overflow, to address that problem.
#Stack overflow license#
“In licensing terms, it’s Creative Commons License and everybody that participates in Stack knows that,” says Chandrasekar.
#Stack overflow code#
What about the issue with AI coding where now and again it might generate copyright code but without the accompanying license? Is that a problem for Stack Overflow as well, if contributors provide code that is taken from an open-source project?
Code snippets are part of the answer, but the ‘how’ is equally important … a code snippet with nothing else, no context around it, that’s the worst possible situation, you don’t know you’re doing, but around the code is also an explanation of why … if people don’t read the explanation, that’s on them, right?,” Chandrasekar says. Our mission statement is to empower the world to build technology through collective knowledge, it’s not through code necessarily. You may have to debug it and have no idea what was just built, and it’s hard to skip the learning journey by taking shortcuts.”ĭoes not the same issue arise when a developer copies and pastes code from Stack Overflow without fully understanding it? “There’s an internal phrase that we use, Stack Overflow is the context for the code.
#Stack overflow full#
“I don’t think it’s the full answer, but it brings a larger population of people into the sphere of writing code.” That said, “at some point you’re going to need to know what you’re building. What does Chandrasekar think about AI coding, through which a developer can get help simply by typing a comment in a code editor, and without visiting Stack Overflow? “AI generated code is one way to on-ramp people into becoming tecnologists,” he tells Dev Class. The topic of AI coding reared it head again recently when developer Tim Davis, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, said GitHub Copilot “emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPC license.”
That gives it an influence, and at the event Chandrasekar gave some other statistics: the site has over 100 million monthly visitors, hosts around 52 millions questions and answers, and has a new question every 14 seconds. We believe we have about 70 to 80 million technologists… who come to our website, 80% on a weekly basis.” To discuss these topics and more, DevClass caught up with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar in the aftermath of the company’s flowstate event in New York City and online.Īccording to Chandrasekar, “there are 25 to 28 million developers in the world, and about 100 million technologists, including the developers, data scientists and DevOps engineers.
#Stack overflow how to#
With a huge volume of developers on its platform, Stack Overflow is well versed in the potential pitfalls of AI coding and reckons it knows how to make fledgling code writers feel more at home.
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