Stack Overflow's traffic is down 40% after its API was shut down, likely because large language models trained on Stack Overflow's open-source contributions, devaluing both the platform and the programmers who contributed there—this may be a canary in the coal mine for all content-dependent AI.

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Ben Horowitz

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stack Overflow... one of the key things that went into the training algorithms for the code generation and now the traffic is down 40%... is that the canary and the coal mine

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Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixona16z
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:29:14 AM

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