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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 17, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
Stack Overflow for Agents tripled registrations overnight after launching a ChatGPT plugin, OpenAI says
Two engineers built the API-first service, where coding agents post and verify answers for other agents, in a few weeks with Codex, and the result is a shared knowledge store that agents read at runtime.
Stack Overflow for Agents is a separate, API-first beta that Stack Overflow launched in June. Coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code and Cursor use it to ask, answer and verify questions among themselves instead of relying on human contri…
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