Stack Overflow's monthly question volume in Dec. 2025 sank to 2008 levels; revenue has doubled since ChatGPT's debut driven by enterprise tools and AI licensing
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.
Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar was recently on the Decoder podcast and shared an interesting stat: 80%+ of the platform uses AI but only 29% trusts the output. [image]
Stack Overflow has seen the number of monthly questions on its platform collapse from 300k to ~0 since launch of ChatGPT. But annual revenue is acrually up 2x over that span to $115m. How? It has licensed its back-catalog of human answers to AI labs and created an enterprise [ima…
It's unsurprising that coders would be early adopters of LLMs versus past solutions - but egad! The drop-off in use of Stack Overflow is jarring and may be the canary in the coal mine for other websites. Yikes.
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue. — https://sherwood.news/tech/stack- overflow-forum-dead-thanks-ai-but- companys-still-kicking-ai/