The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Building Technical Communities at Stack Overflow with Prashanth Chandrasekar - #526

Oct 11, 2021

In this engaging conversation, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, shares insights into the platform's evolution and impact since 2008. He discusses the significant surge in user engagement during the pandemic, emphasizing the need for adaptability in a hybrid workforce. Prashanth also explores how Stack Overflow leverages AI to enhance community interactions and user experience. Additionally, he highlights strategic partnerships and the platform's role in developer education, offering a glimpse into the future of coding collaboration.

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Intro

2min

The Power of Stack Overflow

8min

Navigating Change: The Impact of the Pandemic on Technology Development

5min

The Organic Journey to a Strategic Acquisition

2min

Building Collaborative Communities in a Hybrid Workforce

5min

Leveraging AI for Developer Community Growth

18min

In this special episode of the show, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow. This interview was recorded as a part of the annual Prosus AI Marketplace event.

In our discussion with Prashanth, we explore the impact the pandemic has had on Stack Overflow, how they think about community and enable collaboration in over 100 million monthly users from around the world, and some of the challenges they’ve dealt with when managing a community of this scale. We also examine where Stack Overflow is in their AI journey, use cases illustrating how they’re currently utilizing ML, what their role is in the future of AI-based code generation, what other trends they’ve picked up on over the last few years, and how they’re using those insights to forge the path forward.

The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/526.

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