Stack Overflow CEO announces 10% reduction in force (58 employees)
Here&#x27;s an idea for those who want to achieve a fast high ranking on Stack Overflow:<p>1. Use their API 2.3 to get the latest questions for your area of interest (Javascript&#x2F;React, whatever):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.stackexchange.com&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.stackexchange.com&#x2F;docs</a><p>2. Feed the questions into your LLM of choice such as Huggingface StarCoder:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;starcoder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;starcoder</a><p>3. Review the answer manually to make sure it&#x27;s legit and not a hallucination or just plain wrong: ideally writing some nice UI so you can see, say, the SO Q on the left, proposed answer on the right, and a bottom terminal where you can run the proposed solution code to verify.  With enough self-verification loops you could cut out the wetware middleperson, but this manual step is crucial to avoid incorrect answers and to keep with SO policy:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;421831&#x2F;temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;421831&#x2F;temporary-po...</a><p>4. Parley #3 to quickly up your ranking to be one of the top users in your area of expertise:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users</a><p>5. Submit a Y Combinator application to create a company doing 1-4 above to solve real world software problems posted online, like Mechanical Turk meets Stack Overflow meets Upwork.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;apply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;apply&#x2F;</a><p>6. Bonus points if you are the first &quot;post-code&quot; startup whose code for doing #5 above is actually written 100% by transformer agents:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;transformers_agents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;transformers_agents</a>