An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

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Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

Stack Overflow has temporarily banned users from sharing answers to coding queries generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. The site’s mods say the volume of AI generated answers has been too high and ...

Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. And trust me, we all do it. That’s because there are question-and-answer sites like ...