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StackOverflow Trends 2026: The Structural Shift from Human Support to Generative AI

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Published: January 3, 2026

Author: Kanshi Tanaike

Abstract

Analyzing StackOverflow data (2008–2026) reveals a massive activity decline post-ChatGPT. Using Google Apps Script as a case study, this report quantifies the migration from human support to AI. We explore how the platform is pivoting from a help desk to a critical verification layer for AI-generated code to prevent model collapse.

Introduction

On StackOverflow, millions of developers engage in daily knowledge exchange, creating a historical repository of technological evolution. A prime example of this ecosystem is the google-apps-script tag. Having participated in this community for years, I have observed its threads evolve in tandem with Google’s platform updates.

Analyzing Google Apps Script from Stackoverflow

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Abstract

The report details a novel Gemini API method to analyze big data beyond AI context window limits, which was validated with Stack Overflow data for insights into Google Apps Script’s potential.

Introduction

Generative AI models face significant limitations when processing massive datasets, primarily due to the constraints imposed by their fixed context windows. Current methods thus struggle to analyze the entirety of big data within a single API call, preventing comprehensive analysis. To address this challenge, I have developed and published a detailed report presenting a novel approach using the Gemini API for comprehensive big data analysis, designed to operate effectively beyond typical model context window limits. Ref

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2025

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Published: March 9, 2025

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

On Stack Overflow, numerous users post questions and answers daily across various tags. These discussions, spanning a wide range of topics, provide valuable information and are highly beneficial. One such tag is “google-apps-script,” where I occasionally participate in discussions. Observing these threads over time, it’s evident that they evolve alongside updates to Google Apps Script, the technology at the core of the tag. This report aims to analyze this evolution as a trend within the “google-apps-script” tag. This trend encompasses changes in the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and associated tags. The evolution of the “google-apps-script” tag is closely linked to the development of Google Apps Script and its diverse applications.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2024

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Published: January 6, 2024

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring important information and are very useful for a lot of people. As one of the tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we notice that the discussions have changed and progressed over time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change is the trend of the tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and tags added to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of the tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2023

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Published: January 3, 2023

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of the tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed over time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change is the trend of the tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and tags added to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of the tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2022

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Published: January 7, 2022

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of the tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed by the time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change is the trend of the tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and tags adding to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of the tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2021

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Published: January 16, 2021

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring the important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss at the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed by the time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change as the trend of tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers and tags adding to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

Statistical Analysis of Duplicated Questions for google-apps-script tag in Stackoverflow

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Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answer to the questions every day. By this, there are a lot of important information in Stackoverflow. I have already reported “Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow” using the data retrieved from Stackoverflow. Ref. 1 It is found that the important statistical result can be obtained by analyzing the data on Stackoverflow. In this report, I would like to introduce the statistical analysis of duplicated questions for the google-apps-script tag in Stackoverflow. When the duplicated question is analyzed, it is considered that the important issues for users can be known. As the result, it was found that there are the trend that the duplicated questions related to Javascript, Google Spreadsheet , the process cost and the cooperation with HTML and Javascript are posted.

Tags Using Together with google-apps-script Tag at Stackoverflow

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This table shows all tags using together with the tag of “google-apps-script” at Stackoverflow. The tags are summarized every year. At 2020, the data is retrieved from January 1, 2020 to July 16, 2020. The number enclosed (###) means the number of use of the tag. When this table was a material for discussing about the current tags for “google-apps-script”, I’m glad.

Year Used Tag list
2008
2009 google-form(1),google-sheets(1),google-apps-script(1)
2010 google-apps-script(50),google-sheets(31),javascript(23),google-apps(4),custom-function(2),google-calendar-api(2),spreadsheet(2),google-docs-api(2),vba(2),google-docs(2),amazon(1),amazon-web-services(1),api(1),timezone(1),ms-office(1),xml-namespaces(1),xml(1),closures(1),google-sites(1),google-maps-api-3(1),array-formulas(1),google-sheets-formula(1),google-data-api(1),date-manipulation(1),datetime(1)
2011 google-apps-script(72),google-sheets(31),google-apps(16),javascript(15),google-docs(8),google-spreadsheet-api(4),google-form(3),google-api(3),google-docs-api(2),spreadsheet(2),google-fusion-tables(2),google-calendar-api(2),java(2),google-app-engine(2),number-formatting(1),file-upload(1),google-apps-marketplace(1),json(1),email(1),html(1),tabpanel(1),gmail(1),performance(1),user-interface(1),zend-framework(1)
2012 google-apps-script(1877),google-sheets(345),javascript(161),google-docs(63),google-sites(61),google-apps(54),google-spreadsheet-api(44),google-drive-api(44),gmail(40),google-calendar-api(31),google-docs-api(29),html(19),google-visualization(18),triggers(18),email(15),google-form(15),spreadsheet(14),urlfetch(13),gwt(13),oauth(13),custom-function(13),google-app-engine(12),user-interface(11),jquery(11),jdbc(10)
2013 google-apps-script(2606),google-sheets(765),javascript(413),google-drive-api(124),google-docs(120),google-form(97),google-spreadsheet-api(78),google-apps(77),gmail(58),google-sites(57),html(56),google-calendar-api(41),google-api(34),email(31),google-docs-api(26),jquery(24),arrays(23),triggers(22),forms(22),google-app-engine(21),google-visualization(21),user-interface(20),spreadsheet(20),json(19),google-caja(19)
2014 google-apps-script(2758),google-sheets(875),javascript(606),google-form(177),google-drive-api(168),google-docs(143),google-spreadsheet-api(90),google-apps(84),html(81),google-calendar-api(61),google-sites(56),gmail(54),email(53),jquery(49),arrays(45),forms(39),spreadsheet(35),triggers(35),excel(33),json(33),google-docs-api(28),google-api(28),google-app-engine(24),google-visualization(22),google-bigquery(22)
2015 google-apps-script(2781),google-sheets(1134),javascript(714),google-form(159),html(158),google-docs(127),google-apps(115),google-spreadsheet-api(98),google-drive-api(97),gmail(66),arrays(57),google-calendar-api(57),jquery(51),google-api(46),forms(40),spreadsheet(39),email(38),google-docs-api(36),json(35),triggers(33),google-sites(32),regex(32),google-visualization(30),php(23),css(20)
2016 google-apps-script(2888),google-sheets(1198),javascript(783),google-form(156),html(118),google-drive-api(117),google-apps(117),google-docs(77),arrays(74),google-spreadsheet-api(73),json(60),gmail(59),email(46),google-calendar-api(43),google-sheets-api(42),google-api(42),triggers(38),google-visualization(31),jquery(31),spreadsheet(31),google-docs-api(29),date(24),regex(23),forms(22),csv(22)
2017 google-apps-script(3873),google-sheets(1537),javascript(979),google-form(194),html(158),google-sheets-api(137),google-docs(127),google-apps(122),google-drive-api(122),google-spreadsheet-api(114),arrays(110),gmail(85),email(64),json(56),gmail-api(52),google-api(52),triggers(51),jquery(51),spreadsheet(48),google-calendar-api(42),regex(34),google-sites(31),forms(27),custom-function(27),excel(27)
2018 google-apps-script(4716),google-sheets(2062),javascript(1046),google-form(189),google-drive-api(189),google-docs(167),google-sheets-api(165),gmail-addons(155),html(134),triggers(129),gmail(120),arrays(111),google-calendar-api(79),json(68),google-app-maker(63),email(59),google-apps-script-addon(55),gmail-api(54),google-api(50),regex(50),custom-function(48),gsuite(47),google-bigquery(45),google-slides-api(43),web-applications(43)
2019 google-apps-script(6731),google-sheets(3300),javascript(1352),google-form(263),html(250),google-sheets-api(223),google-drive-api(216),google-sheets-formula(168),google-docs(158),gmail(154),web-applications(143),arrays(141),google-sheets-macros(134),triggers(128),google-apps-script-web-application(112),google-calendar-api(88),gmail-addons(85),google-apps-script-addon(85),json(82),google-apps(77),gsuite(76),google-api(69),google-app-maker(64),scripting(61),google-apps-script-editor(61)
2020 google-apps-script(4853),google-sheets(2503),javascript(1221),html(199),google-form(176),google-drive-api(161),google-apps-script-web-application(160),arrays(154),google-sheets-api(149),google-docs(124),google-sheets-formula(120),google-sheets-macros(90),gmail(86),json(85),google-apps-script-simple-triggers(69),google-calendar-api(68),urlfetch(66),google-apps-script-addon(65),spreadsheet(57),triggers(51),gsuite-addons(48),gs-installable-triggers(47),email(47),gsuite(47),google-apps-script-editor(45)

Statistics of gas Tag on Stackoverflow

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This is the statistics for the tag gas on Stackoverflow. This statistics are retrieve from Stackoverflow using Stackexchange API. About 2020, the data is retrieved from 2020-01-01 to 2020-07-01.

This statistics data was obtained at 2020-07-15.

Measurement result

Fig. 1: Year vs. Total questions, Answered, Solved and Closed questions


Table 1: Tags which were used together with gas tag for each year.

Year Used Tag list
2008
2009 gas(12),assembly(11),x86(4),gcc(3),nasm(2),linux(2),relative-addressing(1),disassembly(1),avr(1),macos(1),segments(1),inline-assembly(1),tdm-mingw(1),c(1),directive(1),mips(1),compiler-construction(1),gnu(1),stack(1),multithreading(1)
2010 gas(31),assembly(28),x86(9),ld(6),gcc(4),linux(4),arm(4),gnu(3),c(3),inline-assembly(2),linker(2),elf(1),gdb(1),macos(1),ubuntu(1),mips(1),binutils(1),iphone(1),x86-64(1),64-bit(1),macros(1),intel-syntax(1),compiler-construction(1),python(1),embedded(1)
2011 gas(46),assembly(37),x86(16),gcc(11),c(9),linux(6),gnu(4),64-bit(3),arm(3),nasm(3),att(3),inline-assembly(3),binutils(2),x86-64(2),register-allocation(2),system-calls(1),32-bit(1),cortex-a8(1),fibonacci(1),recursion(1),xcode(1),string(1),mips(1),dwarf(1),callstack(1)
2012 gas(59),assembly(46),gcc(15),x86(10),x86-64(6),macos(6),gnu(6),linux(6),att(5),c(5),arm(4),ld(4),system-calls(3),binutils(3),nasm(3),struct(2),elf(2),syntax(2),interrupt(2),fpu(2),inline-assembly(1),clang(1),webrtc(1),compilation(1),iphone(1)
2013 gas(70),assembly(55),x86(18),x86-64(16),gcc(14),linux(14),att(7),nasm(6),c++(5),inline-assembly(4),c(4),syntax(3),intel-syntax(2),printf(2),arm(2),intel(2),segmentation-fault(2),arrays(2),linker(2),i386(2),ffmpeg(1),ios(1),yasm(1),tasm(1),elf(1)
2014 gas(61),assembly(53),x86(17),c(9),gcc(8),x86-64(7),nasm(5),linux(5),gdb(4),arm(4),stack(3),masm(3),disassembly(3),att(3),inline-assembly(3),arrays(2),32-bit(2),cpu-registers(2),shellcode(1),sockets(1),intel-syntax(1),opcode(1),gnu(1),c++(1),scanf(1)
2015 gas(89),assembly(76),x86(25),att(15),c(13),gcc(12),x86-64(12),gnu(6),nasm(4),linux(4),gdb(3),inline-assembly(3),mips(3),macos(2),clang(2),elf(2),disassembly(2),macros(2),yasm(2),xcode(2),calling-convention(2),makefile(2),ld(2),arm64(2),intel-syntax(1)
2016 gas(97),assembly(86),x86(32),x86-64(17),gcc(16),linux(16),att(14),c(5),nasm(5),osdev(4),ld(4),x86-16(4),linker(4),c++(3),gnu(3),gdb(2),forth(2),riscv(2),dwarf(2),intel(2),memory-alignment(2),intel-syntax(2),macos(2),system-calls(2),real-mode(2)
2017 gas(73),assembly(64),x86(26),gcc(22),att(15),c(11),x86-64(11),intel-syntax(4),gnu(4),linux(4),arm(4),bootloader(4),64-bit(4),nasm(3),x86-16(3),ubuntu(2),osdev(2),inline-assembly(2),gdb(2),macos(2),ld(2),string(2),go(1),if-statement(1),objdump(1)
2018 gas(69),assembly(55),x86(24),x86-64(14),gcc(13),att(6),linux(6),arm(4),macos(3),intel-syntax(3),position-independent-code(3),forth(2),ubuntu(2),x86-16(2),gdb(2),scanf(2),inline-assembly(2),gnu(2),blockchain(2),nasm(2),ld(2),osdev(2),bootloader(2),cygwin(1),debugging(1)
2019 gas(74),assembly(58),x86(21),x86-64(15),gcc(10),att(10),c(8),linux(8),gnu(5),gdb(5),ld(4),macros(3),intel-syntax(3),inline-assembly(2),shared-libraries(2),macos(2),dwarf(2),elf(2),arm(2),addressing-mode(2),machine-code(2),bootloader(2),c-preprocessor(1),pdp-11(1),thumb(1)
2020 gas(68),assembly(55),x86(25),gcc(17),x86-64(16),att(13),intel-syntax(7),c(4),bootloader(4),x86-16(4),osdev(3),arm(3),linux(3),c++(3),gnu(3),linker(3),arm64(2),string-literals(2),powerpc(2),riscv(2),calling-convention(2),ld(2),macos(2),clang(1),abi(1)

Summary

From Fig. 1, it shows that the tag gas is used a lot at 2016. At that time, this tag is used for 97 questions. After 2016, this frequency of gas is a bit low. The average frequency of use is 71.

Statistics of appscript Tag on Stackoverflow

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This is the statistics for the tag appscript on Stackoverflow. This statistics are retrieve from Stackoverflow using Stackexchange API. About 2020, the data is retrieved from 2020-01-01 to 2020-07-01.

Recently, this tag is modified by editing the tags. So I think that it has to be said that this statistics data is obtained at 2020-07-06.

Measurement result

Fig. 1: Year vs. Total questions, Answered, Solved and Closed questions


Table 1: Tags which were used together with appscript tag for each year.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2020

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Published: January 10, 2020

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring the important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss at the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed by the time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change as the trend of tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers and tags adding to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2019

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March 25, 2019 Published.

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring the important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss at the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed by the time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change as the trend of tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers and tags adding to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.