Diverse, high-quality data is a prerequisite for reliable, effective, and ethical AI solutions. | Continue reading
Ryan and Ben welcome Tulsee Doshi and Logan Kilpatrick from Google's DeepMind to discuss the advanced capabilities of the new Gemini 2.5, the importance of feedback loops for model improvement and reducing hallucinations, the necessity of great data for advancements, and enhancin … | Continue reading
Kathleen Vignos, VP of Software Engineering at Capital One, sits down with Ryan to explore shifting to 100% serverless architecture in enterprise, deploying talent for better customer experience, and fostering AI innovation and tech advancements in a regulated banking environment … | Continue reading
Ryan is joined by Jan Seredynski, Mobile Security Researcher and Pentester at Guardsquare, to talk about how you protect your app when the attackers control the code and the device it runs on. | Continue reading
Snowflake customers can now easily enrich their AI applications and agentic systems with some of the most trusted, highest-quality data available while respecting our community members who provide this content with proper attribution. | Continue reading
Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, joins Ryan and Stack Overflow senior director of engineering Ben Matthews on the podcast to discuss deterministic simulation testing, the pitfalls of chaos testing in an AI-driven world, and how testing can help developers deal with … | Continue reading
Positioned at the intersection of automation, decision intelligence, and data orchestration, AI agents are quickly emerging as essential tools for aligning business outcomes with technical workflows. | Continue reading
Ryan welcomes Glen Coates, VP of Product at Shopify, to dive into the intricacies of managing a developer-focused product, the challenges of backwards compatibility, and the implications of AI and LLMs in Shopify's development environment. | Continue reading
This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together. | Continue reading
What challenges do organizations face when adopting AI, and why is understanding its limitations key to success? | Continue reading
We’re always trying to make it easy for users to pick out the information they need and gain insights into their processes, so a natural language interface seemed like a dream. | Continue reading
The 2025.4 Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise (SOE) release is all about helping teams work more seamlessly across tools, departments, and knowledge silos. | Continue reading
Douwe Kiela, CEO and cofounder of Contextual AI, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the intricacies of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They discuss its origins, the evolution of AI models, the challenges of hallucinations, and the importance of system design. Douwe emphasizes th … | Continue reading
Kyle is joined by his former colleague Tyler McEntee, now a senior software engineer at Jona, to talk about doing everything all at once at a startup. | Continue reading
Matthew McCullough, VP of Product for Android Developer Experience, sits down with Ryan to talk advancements in Android development, enhancing developer efficiency and reducing routine toil, and the application of Gemini AI models to improve software toolchains. | Continue reading
As we envision what the ideal future version of Stack Overflow looks like, we’re committed to engaging with our community. | Continue reading
Ryan is joined by Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, and Qian Li, co-founder of DBOS, to discuss durable execution and its use cases, its implementation using technologies like PostgreSQL, and its applications in machine learning pipelines and AI systems for reliability, debugging, and … | Continue reading
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. | Continue reading
Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce. Christophe explains how they solicited and incorporated feedback from th … | Continue reading
Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes? | Continue reading
On this episode, Ryan chats with Hendrik Rexed, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, about debugging cloud-based applications like you would a local app. | Continue reading
Maryam Ashoori, Head of Product for watsonx.ai at IBM, joins Ryan and Eira to talk about the complexity of enterprise AI, the role of governance, the AI skill gap among developers, how AI coding tools impact developer productivity, what chain-of-thought reasoning entails, and wha … | Continue reading
If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams? | Continue reading
Ben Popper chats with CTO Abby Kearns about how Alembic is using composite AI and lessons learned from contract tracing and epidemiology to help companies map customer journeys and understand the ROI of their marketing spend. Ben and Abby also talk about where open-source models … | Continue reading
This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape. | Continue reading
The world has changed a lot since Stack Overflow started. It's time for our brand to change with it. | Continue reading
How can engineering teams move beyond traditional metrics like velocity to create real business impact? | Continue reading
Community “management” at its core is supporting and enabling communities to manage themselves. | Continue reading
Ryan welcomes Jeu George, cofounder and CEO of Orkes, to the show for a conversation about microservices orchestration. They talk through the evolution of microservices, the role of orchestration tools, and the importance of reliability in distributed systems. Their discussion al … | Continue reading
You might already be familiar with the programming language best suited to building on blockchains. | Continue reading
May 2, 2025 Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture Credit: Alexandra Francis SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models wi … | Continue reading
Avoiding bad data is just as important in AI; it can open you to fines, lawsuits, and lost customers. | Continue reading
Ryan talks with Greg Fallon, CEO of Geminus, about the intersection of AI and physical infrastructure, the evolution of simulation technology, the role of synthetic data in machine learning, and the importance of building trust in AI systems. Their conversation also touches on au … | Continue reading
Financial institutions face a balancing act between tech innovation and strict regulations. As customer expectations for improved user experience and demands from those tasked with enhancing features keep rising, engineering teams need to find a harmonious middle ground. | Continue reading
Self-supervised learning is a key advancement that revolutionized natural language processing and generative AI. Here’s how it works and two examples of how it is used to train language models. | Continue reading
Today’s episode is a roundup of spontaneous, on-the-ground conversations from HumanX 2025, featuring guests from CodeConductor, DDN, Cloudflare, and Galileo. | Continue reading
In this episode of Leaders of Code, we chat with guests from Lloyds Banking Group about their focus on engineering excellence and the need for organizations to adapt to new technologies while ensuring customer safety and meeting their expectations. | Continue reading
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap | Continue reading
Ryan chats with Dataiku CEO and cofounder Florian Douetteau about the complexities of the genAI data stack and how his company is orchestrating it. | Continue reading
On today’s episode, Ben and Ryan chat with Laly Bar-Ilan, Chief Scientist at Bit. | Continue reading
Is “agentic AI” just a buzzword, or is it the sea change it seems? | Continue reading
AI is not a linear process. To scale effectively, engineering leaders must account for varied edge cases, presenting a new set of challenges. | Continue reading
Kyle interviews Michael Stum, a former Stacker who started (and returned) to answering questions on the community site. | Continue reading
2025.3 | Teams Enterprise Release | Continue reading
In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Richard “Spencer” Schaefer, cofounder and CTO of Lunar Analytics and a federal AI officer, and Caroline Zhang, cofounder and CTO of Knowtex, which provides AI-powered voice technology to automate workflows. They talk about safeguarding pati … | Continue reading
As with cars, there are few system administration tasks that involve little to no automation. | Continue reading
Ryan chats with Amr Awadallah, founder and CEO of GenAI platform Vectara. They cover how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has advanced, why fact-checking and accurate data are essential in building AI applications, and how Vectara’s Mockingbird model seeks to minimize halluci … | Continue reading
On this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Popper hosts a conversation with Maureen Makes, VP of Engineering at Recursion, and Ellen Brandenberger, Senior Director of Product Strategy for Overflow API. They discuss AI's role in drug discovery, scaling and integration challenges, and … | Continue reading