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Stack Overflow Blog
Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.
Episodes
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Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.
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Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots
Ryan chats with Brian Alvey, CTO at WordPress VIP, about how AI agents are changing the business models of the web, what parts of how we build our sites won’t…
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From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google and co-creator of PHP, joins Leaders of Code to talk about why agentic development feels less like a break…
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Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset
Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines using MCPs…
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No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know about AI context…
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Solving integration woes with a hackathon
Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand…
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Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing
Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR…
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How to be fearlessly AI native
Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering…
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Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer
The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team.
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Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster
Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
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Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth
Your semantic layer is a risk mitigation strategy. Not risk in the abstract, compliance-framework sense, but the practical, operational risk that quietly…
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What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?
Ryan welcomes WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar to the show to chat about what happens—and what we should do—when agents start acting like humans online, how our…
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Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience
Introducing new Stack Internal capabilities as part of our upcoming platform experience. Our latest release turns your existing foundation of knowledge into…
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it…
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You need reliable AI context for your site reliability
Ryan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service…
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No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to…
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Partnerships can keep open source sustainable
Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for…
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The future of development is full-stack
Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” for…
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Developers who move fast still need to do it together
At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic…
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Your AI is only as responsible as you are
Recorded at Microsoft Build, Ryan welcomes Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, about how we can build and use AI responsibly with…
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Building more than just an agent harness
Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI…
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What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in?
Ryan is joined by Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at IBM, to explore what infrastructure-as-code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it.
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Agent orchestration is so two years ago
Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon tasks, why…
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When the sensor starts thinking: SnortML, agentic AI, and the evolving architecture of intrusion detection
Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shifting from…
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The good, the bad, and the AI apps
Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qualitative…
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How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook?
Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, joins Leaders of Code at Snowflake Summit to break down the five-stage framework his org used to go from…
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Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM
Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction, though great for language, isn’t the right inductive bias for…
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Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
If you want your values to spread throughout the industry, the best thing you can possibly do is succeed and make others want to imitate you.
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Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures
Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in…
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The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!
Once again, we're asking for your help to take the temperature of software development.
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Oh the places you’ll go with spatial data
Ryan is joined by Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in…
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Dispatches from O'Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities
Designing contract-bound AI agents for high-stakes execution.
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You don’t understand DNS like you think you do
Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS…
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The new bottleneck
Engineering teams have upgraded their tools. Have they upgraded how they work?
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AI agents are a confused deputy with the keys to your kingdom
How attackers took twenty thousand Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI politely, and why that failure is about to become common.
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If context is king, architecture is the castle
Recorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBergalis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a…
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Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground?
Capacity is one of the hardest problems because it sits at the knotty, gnarled-up intersection of so many other hard problems.
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Developers are emotionally attached to their tools
Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer…
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When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?
On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what…
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Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents
If your coding agent has questions, Stack Overflow for Agents has answers, now in beta.
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Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database
Ryan welcomes Bryan Clark, director of product for Lakebase at Databricks, to discuss what happens when AI agents become the primary creators and users of…
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What can 500 years of journalism teach developers about AI trustworthiness?
AI reliability issues stem from three separate architectural challenges that keep getting lumped into the same category. Prompt engineering alone can't…
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Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era
Ryan welcomes back Tanya Janca, now part of the OWASP Top 10 team, to discuss what changed in the latest OWASP Top 10 release, how the list shifted from…
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What it takes to be a player in the international AI game
From the floor of HumanX, Ryan welcomes Songyee Yoon, managing partner at Principal Venture Partners (PVP), to chat about AI development outside the US, from…
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Best of the Heap: First post of the past
Let's take a moment to shout out all the articles we’re seen posted so far and encourage folks reading to reach out about your…
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The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection
In this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data…
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In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders
If AI is the new power tool for developers, is there still value in artisanal craft when anyone can be a…
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Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work
AI’s impact on software engineering continues, and more and more of that AI is packaged as agents as results from our newest pulse survey show agentic usage…
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Do you have what it takes to run AI in production?
From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production…
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Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator
Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development.…
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Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks
Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage…
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Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can…
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Pack your agentic stack in Slack
Ryan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate everybody’s agents in their chat application…
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Your fridge could be a threat to national security
On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat…