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Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced<\/a> today that the company is \u201csignificantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organization,\u201d as well as \u201csupporting teams\u201d and other groups. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n After the team doubled its employee base last year, Chandrasekar told The Verge<\/em>\u2019s Nilay Patel<\/a> in an interview that about 45 percent of those hires were for its go-to-market sales team, which he said was \u201cobviously the largest team.\u201d We\u2019ve reached out to Stack Overflow to find out what other teams may have been affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Word of the layoffs comes over a year after the company made a big hiring push<\/a>, doubling its size to over 500 people. Stack Overflow did not elaborate on the reasons for the layoff, but its hiring push began near the start of a generative AI boom that has stuffed chatbots into every corner of the tech industry, including coding. That presents clear challenges for a personal coding help forum, as developers get comfortable with AI coding assistance<\/a> and the very tools that do that are blended into products they use<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n