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> Respondents were recruited primarily through channels owned by Stack Overflow. The top sources of respondents were onsite messaging, blog posts, email/newsletter subscribers, banner ads, and social media posts. Since respondents were recruited in this way, highly-engaged users on Stack Overflow were more likely to notice the prompts to take the survey over the duration of the collection promotion. We also recruited respondents via a Reddit ad campaign, this accounted for < 2% of total responses.

They sell their data to OpenAI, so they're also profiting from AI. And in the near future developers will become more fully dependent on StackOverflow for whatever they can't get from AI, because self sufficiency will have atrophied.

That’s a good point - but I suspect that many people who don’t use StackOverflow still participate in the survey. It’s quite popular