Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin
Two engineers built Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks using Codex, OpenAI said. The ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation, according to OpenAI's blog post.
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