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Stack Overflow for Agents triples sign-ups with ChatGPT plugin

What happened

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Two engineers built Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks using Codex. On 16 October 2026, OpenAI News reported that the product tripled its sign-ups with a ChatGPT plugin, which drove up to a 10x increase in agent creation. Both sign-ups and agent creation have risen significantly so far.

Written by AI from the reports · updated 3 h ago

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Oct 16
  1. OpenAI News
    Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

    Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

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