Organizing productive platform teams

So many platforms feel heavy because they mirror the organization, not the architecture the organization claims to want. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Building brains for bulldozers

Ryan chats with Kevin Peterson, CTO of Bedrock Robotics, about the evolution of self-driving technology and why robotics is now advancing; how real data is still relevant but simulation becomes essential for scale; and the future of robotics in addressing labor shortages and enha … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

DeveloperWeek 2026: Making AI tools that are actually good

From interoperability to knowledge architecture to creating AI tools people can actually use, here’s a recap of what we learned from DeveloperWeek 2026. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs containers and sandboxes

In this sponsored episode, Ryan chats with Mark Cavage, President and COO of Docker, joins the show to dive into hardened containers and agent sandboxes. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP

Ryan sits down with Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic and Model Context Protocol co-creator David Soria Parra to talk the evolution of MCP from local-only to remote connectivity, how security and privacy fit into their work with OAuth2 for authentication and authorizatio … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

What’s new at Stack Overflow: March 2026

All that's new on Stack Overflow last month, including the redesigned Stack Overflow now available in beta and open-ended questions now available to all users, plus a shoutout to the community members earning the Populist badge. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

To live in an AI world, knowing is half the battle

Ryan welcomes Marcus Fontoura, technical fellow at Microsoft and author of Human Agency in the Digital World, to discuss the intersection of technology, society, and human dignity in a digital-first world. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Beyond block or allow: How pay-per-crawl is reshaping public data monetization

For most of the web's history, content platforms operated on a simple binary: open or blocked. Then generative AI changed everything. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Your sneak peek at the redesigned Stack Overflow

Come check out the new Stack Overflow beta experience, tell us what you think, and help shape what’s next | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Dogfood so nutritious it’s building the future of SDLCs

Ryan welcomes Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead on Codex, to discuss how the Codex team dogfoods Codex to build Codex, what distinguishes an agentic coding tool from a chat-based code assistant, and why they’re focusing on a safe and secure agentic SDLC rather than jus … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Defense against uploads: Q&A with OSS file scanner, pompelmi

API and network traffic get all the press, but some folks are still trying to build a better upload scanner. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source

Ryan is joined by Philippe Saade, the AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, to dive into the Wikidata Embedding Project and how their team vectorized 30 million of Wikidata’s 119 million entries for semantic search. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a pay-per-crawl model

Inside the pay-per-crawl model colaunched by Stack Overflow and Cloudflare. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers

Developer trust is synonymous with a willingness to deploy AI-generated code to production systems with minimal human review, as well as assurance that AI tools aren’t introducing unacceptable risks and technical debt that will burden you down the line. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it

Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive portfolio that includes SQL Server, CosmosDB, and Postgres; and the challenges that come with database architecture, from the importa … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Even your voice is a data problem

Recorded last December at AWS re:Invent, Ryan welcomes CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, Scott Stephenson, for a conversation on advancing voice AI technology. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

How everyone and anyone can use AI for good

There are big hitters in the AI space that use this tech for humanitarian and environmental good—from start-ups fighting climate change to voice recognition experts diagnosing diseases. But you don't need to be backed by AWS or Microsoft to do good. In part two of this series, we … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Is anyone using AI for good?

In a world where AI is replacing human workers, using up energy and water, and deepening disconnect, is AI for humanitarian good even possible? The answer is yes. In the first part of this two part series, we're taking a look at just a few AI do-gooders and what they're doing to … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs

Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought, which explores the history of the philosophy, mathematics, and logic that underlie artificial intelligence, and scientists' efforts t … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs

Not only is there a future for software development, but we’re on the cusp of enormous demand for code developed by humans. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 5 months ago

AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal

We have another two-for-one special this week, with two more interviews from the floor of re:Invent. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory

Quality software still needs high-quality code, AI agents or not. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs)

Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Wanna see a CSS magic trick?

Ryan is joined by Chris Coyier, founder of CSS Tricks and CodePen, to talk all about what the state of the art of CSS is today, including new features like variables and scroll-driven animations. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Scaling enterprise AI: lessons in governance and operating models from IBM

Successful implementation and scaling of enterprise AI projects is fundamentally a people and operating model challenge, not just a technology problem. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Are you learning with AI? We want to know about it!

We're running a survey to understand how people are using AI to learn and whether that's helping, hurting, and replacing tools. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Are bugs and incidents inevitable with AI coding agents?

What specific kind of bugs is AI more likely to generate? Do some categories of bugs show up more often? How severe are they? How is this impacting production environments? | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Spy vs spy at scale

Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in intelligence in places like translation and image analysis, the challenges of evolving modern tech into government infrastructure, an … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Stack Gives Back 2025!

We’re excited to announce our 17th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt

Ryan sits down with Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech to discuss how AI creates tech debt at scale and what you can do about it. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce

Security controls can be a bit of a cat and mouse game—you block one attack, new ones spring up. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol

Learn how to protect MCP servers from unauthorized access and how authentication of MCP clients to MCP servers works. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Don’t let your backend write checks your frontend can’t cache

Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your f … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

How AWS re:Invented the cloud

From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonom … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors

If a new post looks very similar to content that has been recently removed for being spam, it's likely spam too. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential

Learn how IBM deployed and integrated AI tools in the ultimate enterprise environment. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI

What we learned from the first year of Leaders of Code | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

If you're a Zoomer, this one's for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape

Here's the lowdown on all the tech from 2025 that you, dear Zoomer, should know about. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Vibe code anything in a Hanselminute

Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow

Registered users can now join public chat rooms from day one, making it easier to connect, learn, and participate in the community | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 6 months ago

Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick

Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, their new tool, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the i … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow

Registered users can now join public chat rooms from day one, making it easier to connect, learn, and participate in the community | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI

Pete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to say that looking at AI’s impact as a job killer is a flawed metric. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026

For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge

In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here's what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago

The most dangerous shortcuts in software

Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 7 months ago