{"id":146158,"date":"2023-04-19T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/?p=146158"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:51:25","slug":"stack-overflow-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/ai-news\/stack-overflow-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty: Traffic Down 14% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Developers increasingly get advice from AI chatbots and GitHub CoPilot rather than Stack Overflow message boards<\/h2>\n<p>While traffic to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT has been growing exponentially, Stack Overflow has been experiencing a steady decline \u2013 losing some of its standings as the go-to source developers turn to for answers to coding challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, traffic to Stack Overflow&#8217;s community website has been dropping since the beginning of 2022. That may be in part because of a related development, the introduction of the CoPilot coding assistant from Microsoft\u2019s GitHub business. CoPilot is built on top of the same OpenAI large language model as ChatGPT, capable of processing both human language and programming language.<\/p>\n<p>A plugin to the widely used Microsoft Visual Studio Code allows developers to have CoPilot write entire functions on their behalf, rather than going to Stack Overflow in search of something to copy and paste. CoPilot now incorporates the latest GPT-4 version of OpenAI\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On a year-over-year basis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/stackoverflow.com\/\">traffic to Stack Overflow<\/a> (stackoverflow.com) has been down by an average of 6% every month since January 2022 and was down 13.9% in March.<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT doesn\u2019t have a year-over-year track record, having only launched at the end of November, but its website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/chat.openai.com\/\">chat.openai.com<\/a>) has become one of the world\u2019s hottest digital properties in that short time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/ai-news\/chatgpt-bing-duckduckgo\/\">bigger<\/a> than Microsoft\u2019s Bing search engine for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/\">worldwide traffic<\/a>. It attracted 1.6 billion visits in March and another 920.7 million in the first half of April.<\/li>\n<li>The GitHub website has also been seeing strong growth, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/github.com\/\">traffic to github.com<\/a> up 26.4% year-over-year in March to 524 million visits. That doesn\u2019t reflect all the usage of CoPilot, which normally takes place within an editor like Visual Studio Code, but it would include people coming to the website to get a subscription to the service.<\/li>\n<li>Visits to the GitHub CoPilot free trial signup page more than tripled from February to March, topping 800,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>ChatGPT as a coding tool<\/h2>\n<p>Soon after the introduction of ChatGPT, developers discovered that one of the things it was useful for was producing detailed code samples and complete functions \u2013 with accompanying tutorial content explaining why the code works \u2013 in response to a simple text prompt. The comparisons with Stack Overflow and predictions that ChatGPT would \u201ckill\u201d Stack Overflow started immediately.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-146151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1.png\" alt=\"ChatGPT as a coding tool\" width=\"1305\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1.png 1305w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1-1024x643.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_1-1-512x322.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1305px) 100vw, 1305px\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile, Stack Overflow announced a temporary <a href=\"https:\/\/meta.stackoverflow.com\/questions\/421831\/policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned\">ban<\/a> on posting ChatGPT content to its site \u2013 considered a violation of community standards because, according to the site\u2019s management, ChatGPT\u2019s answers to coding questions are too often incorrect. (Update: In a blog post, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar discusses how his team plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.blog\/2023\/04\/17\/community-is-the-future-of-ai\/\">combine<\/a> the best of community and generative AI technologies going forward.)<\/p>\n<p>The Stack Overflow tradition is that community members post a variety of answers to any given coding question, debate the advantages and tradeoffs, and vote to recognize the best solution. For many common coding questions, a developer will find a widely recognized best answer waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT users miss out on the debate and just get an answer, which can seem quicker and more efficient. The answer that comes back may not be exactly what the developer needs but is often close enough to be shaped and tweaked into a working solution. That\u2019s not so different from the process of finding an answer to someone else\u2019s question on Stack Overflow and adapting it to your own requirements.<\/p>\n<p>CoPilot has been the subject of controversy over code generation based on open source content, without respect to the relevant open source licenses (see this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GitHub_Copilot#Licensing_controversy\">Wikipedia summary<\/a>), and those issues also apply to coding advice provided by ChatGPT. In addition, it\u2019s likely that some of OpenAI\u2019s accumulated wisdom on coding techniques comes from digesting content on Stack Overflow and similar sites.<\/p>\n<h2>How Stack Overflow and GitHub compare with ChatGPT<\/h2>\n<p>Most websites suffer by comparison with ChatGPT these days, and this is not a fair comparison in the sense that Stack Overflow and GitHub are specialized services for developers. ChatGPT has gained mass market appeal, in addition to being useful to developers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-146153 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1.png\" alt=\"chart: traffic to Stack Overflow, ChatGPT and GitHub\" width=\"1200\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_2-1-512x317.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>GitHub is growing, and Stack Overflow is shrinking<\/h2>\n<p>While Stack Overflow and GitHub are a lot closer to each other in size than they are to ChatGPT, GitHub is growing its traffic while Stack Overflow is shrinking. We can\u2019t say how much of GitHub\u2019s growth is related to its embrace (and Microsoft\u2019s broader embrace) of OpenAI technologies, but the related buzz is probably helping.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-146155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1.png\" alt=\"chart: Stack Overflow is shrinking, GitHub is growing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_3-1-512x317.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>CoPilot signups just tripled<\/h2>\n<p>GitHub provides many free services, but CoPilot is one of its paid features \u2013 and popular enough that free trial signups for the service tripled between February and March.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-146157 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1.png\" alt=\"chart: increase in signups for GitHub CoPilot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stack_overflow_chatgpt_4-1-512x317.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>From copy-and-paste to prompt engineering<\/h2>\n<p>For years, Stack Overflow has been such a useful resource for coders that it spawned a million nerd jokes about coding skills being replaced by the ability to copy-and-paste code snippets from the service. While the issues of code quality and intellectual property around ChatGPT code generation continue to swirl, the pivot away from searching and posting questions on Stack Overflow seems to have already occurred. The new lazy-but-efficient coding trick is to prompt ChatGPT, CoPilot, or Bing Chat to write big chunks of code for you.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Similarweb Insights &amp; Communications team is available to pull additional or updated data on request for the news media (journalists are invited to write to <a href=\"mailto:press@similarweb.com\">press@similarweb.com<\/a>). When citing our data, please reference Similarweb as the source and link back to the most relevant blog post or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/\">similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact: <\/strong>For more information, please write to <a href=\"mailto:press@similarweb.com\">press@similarweb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report By: <\/strong>David F. 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