Who owns this tool? You need a software component catalog

We chat with Andrew Boyagi, Atlassian's Senior Developer Evangelist, about bringing great developer experience to teams and platforms with thousands of engineers. When the software sprawl gets so big you spend more time looking for answers than solving problems, it might be … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Would you trust an AI bot to find the fix for vulnerabilities in your code?

On this episode: Eitan Worcel, CEO and cofounder of Mobb, a company that uses AI to automate security vulnerability remediation, talks about how AI can help reduce security backlogs and free up developers’ time, what security risks emerge with GenAI, and why we still need a human … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Exploring the inclusive tech revolution

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Maya Sellon, inclusive design and digital accessibility principal at Shell, about how she’s scaling accessibility and inclusive design practice across an organization the size of Shell. They talk about how knowing t … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

The creator of PyTorch Lightning on the AI hype cycle

The home team chats with William Falcon, an AI researcher and creator of PyTorch Lightning, about developing tooling for the AI ecosystem, open-source contributions, what happens when widely hyped technology needs to scale, and why he’s bullish on experienced developers using AI … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Can a programming language implement time travel?

Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity? | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Building a PDF larger than the known universe

On this home team episode: Massachusetts makes a welcome shift toward skills-based hiring, AI-generated content robs us of our appetite for mac and cheese, and large-scale crypto mining operations account for more than 2% of the US’s electricity generation. Plus: A PDF quite a bi … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Discussions now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow

Expanding the experiment to create the space for developers to have meaningful conversations about their favorite technologies | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Best practices for building LLMs

Intuit shares what they've learned in building multiple LLMs for their generative AI operating system. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

AI isn't putting tech workers out of jobs, the stock price is

On today’s home team episode: a new study confirms that AI isn’t putting us out of business, why tech layoffs have been good for share prices, and the programming students learning to code with Copilot. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Celebrating and improving your community’s knowledge

Let’s take a look at the first Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release of the year, focusing on how your teams can celebrate your community’s contributions and how search improvements will make these contributions more discoverable. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

How to build cloud-native applications for multi-architecture infrastructure

There are new ways to leverage different CPU architectures to increase application performance and reduce cloud compute costs. Making the cloud-native stack multi-architecture ready helps applications run on the right hardware in cloud environments. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

How to beat Doom in just 600 years

Ben and Ryan discuss how complex images (and maybe even interactive games) are being encoded in living cells, the latest trends in prompt engineering, and the educational benefits of gaming. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Inside Intuit's generative AI operating system, GenOS

In today’s episode of the podcast, sponsored by Intuit, Ben and Ryan talk with Shivang Shah, Chief Architect at Intuit Mailchimp, and Merrin Kurian, Principal Engineer and AI Platform Architect at Intuit. They discuss generative AI at Intuit, GenOS (the generative AI operating sy … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Agile works great...to a certain size

The home team convenes to discuss AI deepfakes, the legal implications of generating an AI version of a dead comedian or a famous singer-songwriter, whether leaderboard rankings for AI models reflect reality, and the relationship between agile development and burnout. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 9 months ago

Compression is understanding

The home team chats about machine learning and its applications beyond the hot topic of GenAI, what it means for models to unlearn data, the future of open source, and new frontiers in game development. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

Hacking the hamburger: How a pentester exposed holes in hundreds of fast-food chains

Ben and Ryan talk about the hacker who exposed a security vulnerability in AI-powered software, security risks of smart devices, symbolic deduction engines in AI, and the programming language that features time travel. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

Stack Gives Back 2023!

We’re excited to announce our 15th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

Sending bugs back in time

Ben and Ryan are joined by Ryan’s former colleague and current backend engineer at Spotify, Omar Delarosa, to talk about time-traveling programming languages, a keyboard that turns an iPhone into a Blackberry, and what it’s like working on everyone’s personal DJ. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

The half-life of developer skills is shrinking rapidly

Kian Katanforoosh is the CEO and cofounder of Workera and co-created the Stanford Deep Learning class (CS230) with Prof. Andrew Ng. In this episode he talks about how companies can better measure the skill sets of their employees and how AI will change the half-life of useful ski … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention

The home team discusses a new alternative to smartphones, how AI will impact scientific research and journalism, another dispiriting round of layoffs in tech, and building a computer with Legos. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

How to build a role-playing video game in 24 hours

Ben and Ryan chat about how the human body can act as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, the potential for GenAI to revolutionize game development by creating an infinite array of dynamic game worlds, and advancements in brain-computer interfaces. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

Maximum Glitch: How to break Tetris

The home team is back with a conversation about the 13-year-old who beat Tetris by breaking it; stories from the Mathematics Stack Exchange; and the robot butler that will do your dishes, fold your laundry, and water your plants. Happy New Year! | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

How long till we run out of fresh data to train the latest AI?

On today's episode, Ben and Ryan review the highlights of 2023, explore what made the biggest impact on developers, and chat about what they look forward to in the world of software and technology in 2024. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 10 months ago

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements

Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Self-healing code is the future of software development

Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Stop saying “technical debt”

Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone.

Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers?  | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Is software getting worse?

With all the advancements in software development, apps could be much better. Why aren't they? | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

What is UI 2.0? Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains

For our final episode of the year we chat with Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann about the way AI is reshaping software development and the trends he's excited about for 2024. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

From prompt attacks to data leaks, LLMs offer new capabilities and new threats

While there’s a lot of dangers out there, it’s not all doom and gloom; we also talk about how to mitigate these threats. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

The tax change that's hurting startups and developers

In the United States, R&D expenses and software development suddenly got a lot more expensive, leading to surprise layoffs. Plus, what defines shovelware, game developers look towards unionization, and the right way to kill your process. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Can an AI get depressed?

Ben and Ryan discuss the golden age of digital piracy, the Sisyphean task of keeping kids off the internet, and seasonal depression in AI. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Bringing context to alerting and incident management

Ben and Ryan talk with Robert Ross, the CEO and co-founder of FireHydrant about the problem with alerting and incident management today, how holiday code freezes change incident management, and how Robert accidentally became a CEO. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Three types of AI-assisted programmers

What matters isn’t just whether you use it, but how. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

One weird trick for teaching users your software

Ben talks with James Evans, cofounder and CTO of CommandBar, an AI-powered user assistance platform, about the software usability challenges CommandBar wants to address, the evolution of the company’s natural language search bar, and the future of dynamic interfaces and universal … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

How we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier

In spite of all of the AI innovation that’s happened over the last year, we still believe that a human and community-centered approach to knowledge management is the best way for organizations to unlock the benefits of AI. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Behind the scenes building IBM watsonx, an AI and data platform

Insight into how IBM build their own LLM, data lakehouse, and AI governance system. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?

Ben and Ryan discuss how LLMs are changing the industry and practice of software engineering, a notorious Crash Bandicoot bug, and communication via series of tubes. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

Will developers return to hostile offices?

Ben, Ryan, and Eira convene to discuss return-to-office mandates, what’s surprising about employee attrition in 2023, and how technology can preserve digital records of cultural heritage sites before they’re lost for good. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 11 months ago

How to scale a business-ready AI platform with watsonx: Q&A with IBM

We chat with IBM about how their watsonx platform makes generative AI more than just a fun toy. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 12 months ago

Are remote workers more productive? That’s the wrong question.

Plenty of workers prefer flexibility, regardless of what the research says. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 12 months ago

Cloudflare Workers have a new skill: AI inference-as-a-service

Rita Kozlov, Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare, joins Ben, Ryan, and veteran cohost Cassidy Williams for a conversation about Cloudflare’s new AI service, what her day-to-day is like, and the mind-blowing “physicality” of the internet. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The AI assistant trained on your company’s data

Today’s guest is Joel Hellermark, founder and CEO of Sana, an AI-powered end-to-end learning platform. He talks with Ben and Ryan about a polymath Renaissance, what regulation might look like in the AI space, the intersection of AI and neuroscience, and why AI assistants aren’t t … | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

CEO update: Giving thanks and building upon our product & engineering foundation

We're looking across the calendar year and seeing how much our team has accomplished and where we need to double down on efforts in the months ahead. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Build vs. buy doesn't matter. Tool adoption does.

Ben and Ryan talk to Rob Skillington, CTO and co-founder of Chronosphere. They talk about how buy vs. buy is a false choice, lessons learned from building developer tooling at Uber, and why building developer tools needs more than technical skills. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies

This is part two of our conversation with Kubernetes project cofounder Craig McLuckie, whose new company helps developers build safer software by validating where code came from and that it’s been properly maintained. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

How the cocreator of Kubernetes is helping developers build safer software

Ben and Ryan chat with Craig McLuckie, cofounder of the Kubernetes project and cofounder/CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer, more secure software. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago