Every year for the last three years, we’ve shared major announcements from the mainstage of WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin at pivotal moments in our journey. In 2023, we launched OverflowAI, our flagship AI initiative for our customers and enterprise prospects, whereas final yr, we revealed our imaginative and prescient for the Knowledge as a Service model and high-quality, trusted information because the forex that may outline the brand new period of the web. 2025 thus far has been a yr marked by significant experimentation and evolution for us as an organization and exploration of how we will proceed to be of service to the world’s technologists. At first of the yr, we together with our Head of Group Philippe Beaudette held our first ever live AMA (‘Ask Me Anything’) session, once we shared our plans to introduce new options and codecs of engagement for our customers, and listen to instantly from a few of our neighborhood members. In that very same spirit, right now on the WeAreDevelopers stage we unveiled our new imaginative and prescient, mission assertion, and the most recent product updates for our public platform customers and enterprise prospects. We needed to supply a little bit of a peek backstage on our future and why Stack Overflow stays essentially the most important supply for expertise fans all over the world.
The Open Internet has had many transformations. Since its founding in 2008, Stack Overflow has had a entrance row seat to myriad shifts within the panorama—from the rise of cloud computing within the early 2010s, the rise of distant work through the pandemic, and now the GenAI period that started in late 2022 that has outlined not solely the expertise business however modified the face of society, communication, and public life since then. During the last six months, we’ve approached our evolution with one query: “What’s the way forward for Stack Overflow in an AI world?” The way in which that builders, especially ones at the beginning of their professional careers, interact with expertise and study to code is vastly totally different now in 2025 than in 2008 when our public platform was based. Not solely do technologists flip to an unlimited array of sources, from AI chat bots, on-line video platforms, and dialogue boards to search out options to their queries and sharpen their expertise, however the very definition of a developer has expanded. With these realities in thoughts, we’re looking forward to how we will proceed to serve technologists throughout the globe.
Right this moment onstage, we shared a sneak peek of the findings of our fifteenth annual Developer Survey, our flagship survey that polls our neighborhood on all subjects essential to those that code, which might be launched within the subsequent few weeks. We’ve requested our customers about their ideas on and use of AI, and a putting sample has emerged. For the third yr in a row, we have seen the variety of builders utilizing AI instruments of their workflow proceed to extend yr over yr, with 83% saying they use or plan to make use of AI instruments of their growth course of this yr, a rise over 2024 (76%). Nonetheless, the dearth of belief in AI instruments additionally continues to rise with 46% of respondents saying they don’t belief the output of AI, up considerably from 26% final yr.
With the usage of AI now ubiquitous and ‘AI slop’ quickly changing the content material we see on-line, this belief hole is the place we expect Stack Overflow can play a job. Our renewed imaginative and prescient and function transferring ahead is to be the world’s most important supply for technologists. By offering a trusted human intelligence layer within the age of AI, we imagine we will serve technologists with our mission to domesticate neighborhood, energy studying, and unlock development.
Stack Overflow’s journey over time has by no means been a easy one or simple to outline. We’re most recognized by our origins as a query and reply platform by and for technical specialists, however in 2010 we expanded to incorporate B2C choices with the bigger Stack Trade community and our Careers product to assist builders discover their subsequent job, adopted by our transfer into the Enterprise in 2018 with Stack Overflow for Groups, our inside model of our public providing to assist groups collaborate. Now within the age of AI submit 2023, we’ve entered our subsequent section and lately launched our Knowledge Solutions providing that companions like OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Moveworks make the most of to energy their AI options with our trusted and correct corpus of information. With this evolution and the tempo of change exhibiting no signal of slowing down, we realized a radical simplification of our model structure was so as. Our public platform, together with the Stack Trade community, will now be recognized merely as Stack Overflow, whereas Stack Overflow Enterprise will comprise our Adverts enterprise, Stack Inner (previously generally known as Stack Overflow for Groups), and Stack Information Licensing (previously generally known as Information Options).
Along with evolving our model structure, we’re additionally actively experimenting with and increasing modes of engagement past Q&A for our public platform to replicate our new mission: to assist ALL the builders of the long run in an AI world—with readability, pace, and humanity. It’s about exhibiting up in a approach that displays who we’re right now, and the place we’re headed tomorrow.
One of many methods we’re activating on the Domesticate neighborhood a part of our mission is to introduce options reminiscent of Group Exercise and resurfacing and refreshing older and fewer used options reminiscent of Chat. Group Exercise is a brand new characteristic we’re experimenting with that shows lively customers on-line and the variety of customers who’ve requested questions within the final 24 hours. You may consider it because the heartbeat of the neighborhood, offering a real-time view into simply how lively and engaged the neighborhood is. As we proceed to experiment, you’ll see Group Exercise broaden to extra areas of the positioning and have further methods to have interaction locally.
Chat is a real-time conversational house for builders to unravel and socialize in a extra informal approach than our conventional Q&A format. Chat has been on our website for ages, however we’ve made it extra accessible to extra individuals and introduced it entrance and middle.
As we broaden the positioning to assist the profession development and steady training of technologists worldwide, we wish to make it simple to navigate to wherever you have to go and Energy studying for individuals who go to our website. Many people start our seek for solutions with AI instruments, however typically as soon as we get a solution, there’s a scarcity of certainty that these solutions might be trusted or maybe the solutions you’re receiving are incomplete or lack the suitable context. Stackoverflow.ai is a brand new strategy to assist that discovery and study alongside the best way. This AI-powered search and discovery software offers a well-known, pure language expertise, however it’s enriched with clear connections to trusted and human-verified data from Stack Overflow and the Stack Trade Community. You may ask questions, validate AI solutions and dive deep into technical subjects by means of related content material, or select a handy path to attach with the neighborhood – all with step-by-step steering.
We’ve additionally lately launched Coding Challenges to our website! These new challenges symbolize a brand new, enjoyable approach for builders to stage up by tackling fascinating puzzles and incomes recognition to your expertise and creativity. It’s a rewarding strategy to apply and broaden your data with the Stack Overflow neighborhood in an area that celebrates various and distinctive approaches.
As AI turns into extra pervasive, the efficacy of AI programs will more and more rely upon entry to verifiable and correct data. That can prolong to job alternatives too as individuals search for steering on thrilling profession prospects, and for this reason we purpose to Unlock development for individuals who come to Stack Overflow or use our merchandise.
That is the place Stack Inner (presently Stack Overflow for Teams), the non-public Stack Overflow for enterprises, comes into the image. Right this moment, we launched three new capabilities for Stack Inner that make it the important data intelligence layer for AI instruments and options inside organizations.
The primary is Information Ingestion. Presently in pilot with a number of of our giant enterprise companions, Information Ingestion converts high-value content material from instruments like SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, and others into structured, trusted data inside a Stack Inner occasion. It’s designed to remove silos, speed up onboarding, and scale institutional knowledge.
With builders exchanging worthwhile data throughout the enterprise in a wide range of instruments, we wish to make human-validated and trusted data from Stack Inner accessible wherever they’re working. We’ve lately launched various new Connectors that may assist this together with the Stack Overflow Connector for Microsoft Graph, which indexes and surfaces trusted Stack Inner content material into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Moreover, our model new integration with Backstage.io permits customers to ask a query instantly of their portal, entry a devoted Stack Overflow web page with searchable tags and customers, and get search outcomes according to the Stack Inner platform. Our integration with Moveworks brings an installable Stack Overflow agent to Moveworks’ AI Agent Market that customers can work together with their Stack Inner occasion utilizing pure language.
Lastly, we shared {that a} bi-directional MCP (mannequin context protocol) server is on the horizon. MCP is a layer constructed on prime of the Stack Inner APIs that permits LLMs and AI brokers to attach with information sources and work together with prospects’ Stack Inner information extra effectively. Keep tuned for extra updates on this and Information Ingestion!
As our merchandise and platform have morphed over time, our audiences have grown alongside them. Nonetheless, this enlargement has resulted in our model changing into stretched and eroding its clear id and consistency. During the last a number of months, we’ve been exhausting at work internally exploring what a refreshed visible id for us would possibly appear like. Right this moment onstage we shared a preview of among the instructions we’ve been contemplating. Moreover, within the spirit of maintaining neighborhood at our middle, we are also asking you—our world neighborhood of customers—to weigh in! Explore the options and vote now.
At Stack Overflow we imagine we’ve a pioneering function to play in shifting the dialog across the significance of attribution to our bigger data communities and trusted sources of information to safe a future with sustainable technological progress. By bringing collectively high quality information and human expertise to create sustainable, important communities, we will construct a way forward for Stack Overflow and the web collectively that drives innovation and development for all.
