Text embeddings are key to LLMs and convert text into vector coordinates. | Continue reading
Text embeddings are key to LLMs and convert text into vector coordinates. | Continue reading
Dylan Etkin, founder and CEO of Sleuth, joins Ryan to talk all things engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, continuous delivery, and how his psychology degree has proven useful in his work as an engineering manager and startup founder. | Continue reading
A business wouldn’t take its product development for granted, so why would you neglect the OSS community that’s fundamental to the project’s very existence? | Continue reading
Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, … | Continue reading
AI is garbage in, garbage out, so feed it good data. | Continue reading
Check out some of the new features and updates we’ve recently added on collectives. | Continue reading
Giamir Buoncristiani, tech lead for the Stacks design system at Stack Overflow, joins Ryan for a conversation about all things front end, including how he joined Stack with a mandate to modernize the front-end user interface and why Stack Overflow developers are such big fans of … | Continue reading
The opportunities for edge computing are huge—but so are the memory requirements. | Continue reading
The home team chats with Alex Bovee, cofounder and CEO of identity access management company ConductorOne, about balancing security and productivity in developer workflows, why tech companies have shifted everything left, and the logic behind zero trust. | Continue reading
Both new tech talent and late-career developers are both more likely to be looking. | Continue reading
On today’s sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk with James Simmonds and Tristan Sheppard, both principal software engineers and engineering leads in the power trading department at Shell, about how a century-old company is working to evolve into a place where developers and engin … | Continue reading
On this episode Ryan and Stack Overflow Director of Brand Design David Longworth chat with Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify, about composable architecture, how making it easier to code will create more developers, and the future of the front end is portability. | Continue reading
The core challenge posed by generative AI right now is that unlike conventional applications, LLMs have no “delete” button. | Continue reading
We chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, about v0: a generative AI Vercel built that produces code for web components based on a user's text description of a UI or interface. | Continue reading
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data. | Continue reading
Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that). | Continue reading
Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one. | Continue reading
Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different. | Continue reading
Ben talks with Doug Seven, a director of software development at AWS and the GM for CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, about his career building dev tools and how he hopes AI will give people more bandwidth for creative work. | Continue reading
For AI tools to be useful to your team, they have to fit into your existing workflows. | Continue reading
If we can make operational data easier to manage and easier to access through simple, standardized APIs, everyone can transform their companies into sustainable data-driven organizations. | Continue reading
The home team talks with Matt Martin, cofounder and CEO of Clockwise, which offers AI-powered time management and scheduling tools. | Continue reading
What exactly is a vector database? And how does it relate to generative AI? | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk about the work that earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and how it might make computers way faster. Plus: California’s efforts to transform how math is taught, Unity’s new fee structure, and the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. | Continue reading
Highlighting one of the interesting discussions going on in our Collectives. | Continue reading
From studying music to coding it. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan settle in for a wide-ranging discussion about whether large language models know anything, whether language ability is unique to humans, and what the end of the Hollywood writers’ strike says about the future of AI-generated content. | Continue reading
When all the other languages go one way, time to change direction. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk with Lukas Fittl, founder and CEO of pganalyze, which provides in-depth Postgres database monitoring and optimization. They talk about why Lukas considers himself a founder-CEO by title but engineer by trade, what’s important to understand about SQL, and the rol … | Continue reading
On this sponsored episode, Ben, Cassidy, and Ryan are joined by Luyang Zou, who is a creative coder, artist, architect, and Ambassador for today’s sponsor, Logitech. They chat about the creates amazing immersive spaces that he creates with a keyboard and mouse the process (and Pr … | Continue reading
From Angular JS to Raspberry Pi, from React to Prompt Engineering, our community has been asking questions and sharing knowledge that helps the entire world build better. | Continue reading
This is part two of our conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, Clang, and LLVM and CEO/cofounder of Modular AI. | Continue reading
Go behind the scenes with how we designed our new search. | Continue reading
Chris Lattner helped create Swift, Clang, and LLVM. Now CEO and cofounder of Modular AI, he tells the home team how they built Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that can be thousands of times faster than Python. | Continue reading
Semantic search and augmenting LLMs have sent everyone turning their text into vectors. But where do you store all that vector data? | Continue reading
This is part two of our conversation with Replit CEO and founder Amjad Masad. | Continue reading
The home team talks with Replit CEO and founder Amjad Masad about the democratization of coding tools; why Replit prioritized a mobile coding app; and the technical challenges of a real-time, multi-user IDE. This is part one of our conversation. | Continue reading
The conventional metaphor for career success is a ladder, but there are a lot of problems with this narrative. | Continue reading
How does our emphasis on imposter syndrome keep us from having bigger, harder conversations about how to improve life for developers? | Continue reading
Ben talks with startup founder and advisor Elizabeth Zalman about what makes the founder-investor relationship unique in the world of capital, what changes with technical founders, and what VCs are really looking for. | Continue reading
A series of amazing breakthroughs are allowing paralyzed people to speak and emote. With each passing month, we get closer to a brain-computer interface that might unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our grey matter. | Continue reading
We needed to remove the dependency on the Sites database and contain all Teams infrastructure and data within the TFZ which is all part of Phase II. | Continue reading
Ben and friend of the show Kyle Mitofsky sit down with Reid Robinson, lead product manager for AI at Zapier, for a conversation about AI and automation. Plus: NFTs and the dog behind the doge. | Continue reading
We're updating things to highlight community contributions, make it easier to keep tabs on our latest releases, and connect your Stack Overflow account to the discussion happening on the blog. | Continue reading
Stack Overflow for Team's journey to the cloud started with a new name. | Continue reading
Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are a cornerstone of our efforts to create a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. The post What it’s like being a professional workplace bestie (Ep. 603) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Predictable event architecture, vector DBs, and alt text The post The Overflow #192: Ask your data better questions appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading