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What up, nerds?

I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, January 12th, 2026.

Have you heard?

Stack Overflow is dead.

Have you heard?

Stack Overflow's revenue has doubled since 2022.

The culprit on both accounts?

Yeah, I don't even have to tell you.

You know what it is.

With a scant 6,866 questions asked last month, Stack Overflow as we once knew it is now a relic of a bygone age.

Oh well, let's get into this week's news.

Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug.

Vibe coders rejoiced after Linus Torvalds, the S-tier hacker and infamous curmudgeon, pushed some Python code to his audio noise repo written by AI.

The commit message, quote, This is Google anti-gravity fixing up my visualization tool, which was also generated with help from Google, but of the normal kind.

It mostly went smoothly, although I had to figure out what the problem with using the built-in rectangle select was.