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Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow and Jody Bailey Chief Product and Technology Officer, spoke at this year’s We Are Developers conference in Berlin. A key point in their presentation was that while the open web has transformed significantly over the past few years with the rapid development and adoption of LLMs, what distinguishes Stack Overflow is that we are a source of knowledge that is powered by humans.

Prashanth and Jody shared current product focuses on both the public platform and Stack Overflow Business (Enterprise products). Much of what was presented on the public platform side has already been shared on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow:

You can read more about today’s talk on the blog.

For a preview of some of the directions we’re considering for the rebrand, please go here to review and share your feedback.

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    Dear MSE folks: we can't really whine about the company not announcing things on MSE and then just immediately downvote if they do. All this post is saying is that Prashanth made a presentation. Hell, it even seems to be saying that this time, instead of pushing AI, he was pushing non-AI. Surely that's a step in the right direction? In any case, this post itself just mentions the fact that a presentation was made. Even if the downvotes are supposed to indicate disagreement with something mentioned in the presentations, that is pointless without explaining what you disagree with.
    – terdon
    Commented Jul 10 at 15:12
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    @terdon Well people can't downvote the blog post, so what do you propose? Voting is feedback whether it's explained or not. It's great that you view the post as somewhat positive, obviously the folks that downvoted disagreed. It's unfair to categorize community criticism of the company's lack of communication as whining. Yes, I was happy to see more announcements and more communication from the company. No, I will not be afraid that downvoting a post will make them stop communicating and I'm done wasting my time writing up constructive feedback that is always ignored.
    – ColleenV
    Commented Jul 10 at 15:53
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    @ColleenV I didn't categorize the voting as whining, I was referring to how often we (myself very much included, which is why I felt I could refer to it as whining) complain—with good reason—that the company ignores meta, but then when a hapless employee actually takes the time to post a simply informative message, they get downvoted. Since this post is just "a thing happened", I don't see the point of downvoting as a way of disagreeing with some point that was made inside one of the presentations.
    – terdon
    Commented Jul 10 at 15:58
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    literally everything is either negative or inconsequential. There's still no movement on actual problems facing the network.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 10 at 16:13
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    We're literally just rearranging chairs while selling out to the competition.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 10 at 16:33
  • @terdon I understood what you were referring to as whining and I objected to characterizing it that way. This isn't a hapless employee posting something out of the goodness of their heart. Rosie was directed to post this and I'm sure they understand that the votes aren't personal. Insisting that we construe votes as relating only to the literal content of the post and not what it is actually trying to communicate is silly. Many of us wish the community/company relationship was more positive, but wishing doesn't make it so and the company's choices haven't been helping lately.
    – ColleenV
    Commented Jul 10 at 17:09
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    Related: 2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary
    – V2Blast
    Commented Jul 11 at 0:30

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"Stack Internal (formerly known as Stack Overflow for Teams)"

Woohoo! Thank you! There were several comments about renaming SOfT/"Teams" on the previous meta post on rebranding, I'm glad this was included.

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So it was a little difficult to decide which way to vote. Some of this I disagree with, some of it is moving along at a reasonable clip, some seem stall, and others I'm still digesting.

While I get the role of conferences in getting across the product to potential customers, least on the ground, I'd say the end effects are more important, and in quite a few places we're not where we want to be. I appreciate that this was shared but I'd say my outlook is based on what's said and happens here over the conferences.

On the whole, I ended up choosing to downvote over, well the issues brought up over the past week - on whether promises made over the AMA were kept (there's pending issues as far as I'm concerned, so that's a negative), AI assist - which I'm not happy is network wide, and the branding update, which at the moment is a negative for several reasons.

I am happy over the reinvestment on chat but that's a silver lining over somewhat dark clouds.

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