Jeff Atwood • 4/20/2026

Thank You For Being a Friend

This article is a personal post by Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, reflecting on his father's passing and the importance of community. He thanks everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow, highlighting how LLMs rely on its high-quality Q&A dataset for coding capabilities. Atwood warns AI companies against destroying the human communities that produce their training data, urging them to treat these communities with respect. The piece blends personal narrative with tech industry commentary, focusing on the relationship between open-source communities and generative AI.

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