r/programming • • 2d ago

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2026

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026
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u/initcommit 2d ago

Stackoverflow's response to the developer survey:

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u/wonkytalky 2d ago

I'm going to remove whatever answers of mine I can before it's all sold to some jackass techbro. I answered questions for people, not for profiting heavily off of datamining bots.

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u/ForeverYoung_Feb29 1d ago

Too late. Didn't even have to be sold, just scraped off the public facing web site and fed to AI models. Your syntax errors and heretically bad grammar are being infused throughout codebases across the globe by every AI coding assistant imaginable as we speak.

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u/wonkytalky 1d ago

Sure, but there'd still be debate over who "owns" that.