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    Stack Overflow says its ChatGPT plugin tripled signups overnight

    In an OpenAI customer case study published October 16, a Stack Overflow product executive says a ChatGPT plugin tripled registrations for Stack Overflow for Agents overnight and helped increase agent creation. She also describes using Codex to shorten connector development. These are the customer’s reported results in a vendor-selected case study, without a public baseline or independent audit; Stack Overflow announced the plugin itself in September.

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