[ilaksh]

Well, I'm used to having unpopular opinions. So while I know that I will be crucified for saying this, I will say it anyway.

Stack Overflow absolutely _has_ to integrate AI if there is any chance of it continuing as a viable business. How do we know this? For starters, a massive portion of users have already stopped asking questions on Stack Overflow and switched to asking ChatGPT.

The situation with the moderators and politics and community interaction might have been botched. Maybe. But I suspect that there might not have been any way to shift direction without making the community extremely angry.

It's not human equivalent. But it can provide useful info and is getting better at a rapid pace. They did not have a choice about integrating AI deeply.

Part of this is people failing to understand the capabilities of the leading edge AI models and how that changes things.