Stack Overflow, which banned ChatGPT, now touts 3x signups via its ChatGPT plugin
DevDminGod · x · 2026-10-17
A screenshot juxtaposition: Stack Overflow once banned all generative AI content site-wide (the policy post was locked after 300+ deleted argument comments, 1.7M views). Three years later, OpenAI's site features a case study: two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin drove 3x signups and up to 10x agent creation. The poster quips: "revenge, sweet, cold revenge."
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