Live from the OpenAI forum: Learning to code in the age of AI

As AI improves at creating, testing, and reviewing code, developers are getting justifiably nervous about the future of their profession. Junior developers and those looking to get their foot in the door at engineering organizations view the changing state of the industry with trepidation. The scale and scope of these changes continue to accelerate as the technology matures. This isn’t just a case of nerves; junior developers are feeling real effects from AI.

Here at Stack Overflow, we have a huge stake in the future of software development as a profession: we help grow engineers’ knowledge through shared community wisdom. Much of the benefit of that wisdom goes to those aspiring junior developers.

We’re excited to share that our CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, will be speaking at a virtual fireside chat at the OpenAI Forum. He’ll join OpenAI’s Romain Huet for a live conversation about the changing role of developers in an AI-enabled present and why software engineering won’t be going away anytime soon (just changing).

Tune in next Monday, November 03 at 3:00 PM EDT to watch the chat from anywhere in the world. You can expect to hear more about what we learned in our 2025 Developer Survey, how teams can train the next generation of developers, and updates on the upcoming collaborations between OpenAI and Stack Overflow.

We’ve partnered with OpenAI in the past to provide our community knowledge in a sustainable way. They know the value of human engineers. Expect to hear about where humans can continue to provide value AI workflows.

We continue to advocate for the value of software engineers and your knowledge. Without you and your intellectual curiosity, our platform would not exist. Join us for the next evolution of the software engineering field.