Stack Overflow launches Labs without announcement

9ao9ai9ar commented 2 months ago

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{
  "date_str": "2023-06-13",
  "title": "Stack Overflow launches Labs without announcement",
  "slug": "stack-overflow-launches-labs-without-announcement",
  "type": "experiment",
  "body": "<p><a href=\"https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/390241\">What is Stack Overflow Labs? Why is it sponsoring GenAI SE?</a></p>",
  "tags": [
    {
      "text": "stack-overflow-labs",
      "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stack-overflow-labs"
    }
  ]
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Oaphi commented 2 months ago

It'd be better if you moved the MSE post link to the list of links like this:

"links": [
    {
        "text": "MSE post",
        "url": "https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/390241"
    }
],

And added a short description of the event.

samliew commented 2 months ago

Agreed, please provide a short description of the event. I don't know anything about it and why it is relevant for the timeline.

9ao9ai9ar commented 2 months ago

Agreed, please provide a short description of the event. I don't know anything about it and why it is relevant for the timeline.

For context, I learned of its existence from reading a blog post and its follow-up by an ex-employee of Stack Exchange, Inc. For a short description of the event, I'd probably quote the first answer to the MSE post link:

The purpose is to have a central hub to share our experiments, demos, insights, and news - across all Stack Overflow products.

It's relevant because it's part of a series of initiatives (including the GenAI site launch which I'll cover in another GitHub issue) by Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, and the fact that you, and even most staff at Stack Overflow, didn't know anything about it is, in my view, a testament to his dysfunctional leadership.

samliew commented 2 months ago

Thanks for your contribution to the SE Timeline project.

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