The Vast and Endless Sea

What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of

StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse

Jeff Atwood wants to improve the entire internet. That's always been his goal a better place. He started by co-founding StackOverflow, a question-and-answer site for software developers that revolutionized the way they learn online, and eventually, this evolved into StackExchange, a network of Q&A sites spanning myriad topics. Now, Atwood has renewed his crusade with Discourse, an open source application for building online message boards that he hopes will become as ubiquitous as WordPress.

AI and the Collapse of the www

This paper studies market design for generative AI intermediation. AI answer systems can improve user experience while diverting visits that finance publisher content and generate source-level quality signals. I show that an AI platform that underinternalizes future content reproduction retains too little referral traffic and can make costly open-web information subcritical, even with truthful content, accurate answers, and rational users. The mechanism can be self-reinforcing: less source-level measurement weakens conventional search, inducing further AI reliance. Sustainable repair requires replacing displaced revenue and deleted measurement through visitor-replacement royalties, audited provenance, human-information audits, and keystone-topic compensation.

The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site

Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…

The AI browser wars are about to begin

Artificial intelligence is already writing an obituary for the internet as we know it. So why is everyone building new web browsers?

Where Browsers Come From

In this post, I’ll talk about the evolution of the economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.

How the small web is creating an anti-slop internet

What is the small web? A new crop of platforms are answering algorithmic fatigue with a return to human-curated basics.

The Open Stack | LinkedIn

Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on

Stack overflow is almost dead

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

Why won't you answer my question?

I've spent more time than I would like to admit on various Q&A sites and forums related to development, where I have answered thousands of questions. Generally, the questions stay within the confines of such forums, however after waking up to my personal inbox being flooded with a

Corporations Reeling From Huge AI Costs With No Clear Benefits

Costs to access powerful AI tools are soaring, forcing company leaders to ask some difficult questions about the actual benefits.

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