An Empirical Study of OpenAI API Discussions on Stack Overflow

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04084v1
• Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 02:51:32 GMT
• Title: An Empirical Study of OpenAI API Discussions on Stack Overflow
• Authors: Xiang Chen, Jibin Wang, Chaoyang Gao, Xiaolin Ju, Zhanqi Cui,
• Abstract summary: We conduct the first comprehensive empirical study by analyzing 2,874 OpenAI API-related discussions from the popular Q&A forum Stack Overflow.<n>We identify specific challenges associated with each category through topic modeling analysis.<n>Based on our findings, we propose actionable implications for developers, LLM vendors, and researchers.
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• Abstract: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), represented by OpenAI's GPT series, has significantly impacted various domains such as natural language processing, software development, education, healthcare, finance, and scientific research. However, OpenAI APIs introduce unique challenges that differ from traditional APIs, such as the complexities of prompt engineering, token-based cost management, non-deterministic outputs, and operation as black boxes. To the best of our knowledge, the challenges developers encounter when using OpenAI APIs have not been explored in previous empirical studies. To fill this gap, we conduct the first comprehensive empirical study by analyzing 2,874 OpenAI API-related discussions from the popular Q&A forum Stack Overflow. We first examine the popularity and difficulty of these posts. After manually categorizing them into nine OpenAI API-related categories, we identify specific challenges associated with each category through topic modeling analysis. Based on our empirical findings, we finally propose actionable implications for developers, LLM vendors, and researchers.

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