Stack Overflow's Q&A forum traffic plummets to 2008 levels due to AI coding assistants, but company doubles revenue to $115M by licensing data to AI firms and selling enterprise AI tools.

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI

The Stack Overflow logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen (Thomas Fuller/Getty Images)The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.When Elon Musk described Stack Overflow’s plight as “death by LLM” in July 2023, he wasn’t exaggerating.Having been the go-to resource for developers looking for technical help for a long time, Stack Overflow neared the peak of its powers during the pandemic, with coders seeking the evergreen information on the...