[gkoberger]

This was so vague that my take is a bit different than everyone else's here – my guess is that developers love StackOverflow, hate that OpenAI is stealing their info and destroying SO, and OpenAI sees this as a cheap way to curry favor with developers (and based on the response here, it's not working).

I think both SO and OpenAI see the writing on the wall (unfortunately). The real "partnership" is OpenAI gets to say "look, we're working together!" to avoid accusations of destroying SO, and SO gets to save a little bit of face (and hopefully make a little money) on the way down.

[julianeon]

I wouldn't say StackOverflow is especially beloved by developers. Coders on X/Twitter used to complain about how much they dislike SO all the time; I see less of those now, probably because they've switched to using ChatGPT. When I've seen blog posts or headlines about them in the past 1-2 years, they're usually about how "StackOverflow is dying."

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1592s82/the_fa...

[politelemon]

It's worth keeping in mind that there are a certain kind of people that inhabit twitter and we aren't exactly the appreciative kind, nor are we representative of a presumed developer monolith which doesn't exist.

[gkoberger]

Obviously tech isn't a monoculture and everyone has their own unique opinions, however...

I think it boils down to more of "Hey, we can criticize StackOverflow since we're on the inside... but if someone attacks from the outside, we have its back."

[Foobar8568]

SO is mainly used and loved by entreprise developers not hanging out on Twitter, HN etc.

[oblio]

And they're the majority of devs. The majority of everything is around the average.