We Blamed Stack Overflow for a Decade. Now It's AI.

Twenty-three years of writing code teaches you something about the stories we tell ourselves when things break. You've seen it ... The production incident that wakes everyone up at 3 AM. The cryptic error that nobody can explain. The Slack channel lighting up with alerts and confusion. And then, like clockwork, the explanation surfaces: "I got this from Stack Overflow." That phrase carried weight. It was supposed to be absolution. The code worked somewhere else ... on the internet, in a differen