The Stack Overflow Podcast

Scaling systems to manage the data about the data

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is o...

How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible.We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a ...

Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey.A few highlights to get you started:  most popular technologies, most admi...

How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cortex is an internal developer portal that cuts noise and helps devs build and continuously improve software. Explore their docs or see what’s happ...

How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught.Josh Zhang...

On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a...

The problem with the tech debt mindset

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”Learn more about technical bankruptc...

Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon. Got questions about Java? Check out the site.Apache Groovy is a Ja...

The framework helping devs build LLM apps

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

LlamaIndex is a data framework for building LLM applications. Check out the open-source framework or get started with the developer community, LlamaHu...

Why we built Staging Ground

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Staging Ground on our blog or in the help center.Find Kyle on LinkedIn, GitHub, and Twitter.Spevacus is a full stack developer and St...

We chat search from both sides now

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stack Overflow and Elastic are collaborating to improve the search experience using vector search and generative AI. Learn more about the new AI featu...

What can devs do about code review anxiety?

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Carol is an applied clinical and intervention scientist: she develops and tests cognitive, behavioral, and social interventions that activate key mech...

Happy people make better products

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Still thinking about developer happiness and productivity? Read Eira’s article about the real 10x developers among us.Connect with Ben Borra through...

How to build open source apps in a highly regulated industry

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before Medplum, Reshma founded and exited two startups in the healthcare space – MedXT (managing medical images online acquired by Box) and Droplet ...

A very special 5-year-anniversary edition of the Stack Overflow podcast!

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, ...

Say goodbye to "junior" engineering roles

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews,...

Making ETL pipelines a thing of the past

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake, meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, secur...

The world’s most popular web framework is going AI native

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next.JS...

A peek behind the curtain with Stack Overflow’s sales engineers

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site.If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn. The same goes f...

This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn more about Squire AI hereConnect with Patel on his LinkedInCongrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,...

How to prevent your new chatbot from giving away company secrets

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Narayan on LinkedIn.Learn more about SnapLogic here.Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge b...

Can software startups that need $$$ avoid venture captial?

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X.Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innov...

An open-source development paradigm

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or ...

Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation.Connect with Robin on LinkedIn, Twitter, or via his website. Shoutout to use...

How to train your dream machine

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs.Galileo’s Hallucinati...

OverflowAI and the holy grail of search

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coheren...

Spreading the gospel of Python

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here.His scr...

Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here.Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them t...

Reshaping the future of API platforms

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub.We last spoke with Marco in 2023. infConnect with Marco on LinkedIn.Congrats to Famous Questio...

The reverse mullett model of software engineering

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do. Check out the results of our last job market survey. Conne...

Net neutrality is in; TikTok and noncompetes are out

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements, a staple of the tech industry for years.Learn how a 2017 ta...

Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. Stop by the forum or explore the docs.Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050...

Is GenAI the next dot-com bubble?

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT.Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI...

Why configuration is so complicated

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why can’t configuration be made simple? Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts.Texas is swapping human graders...

If everyone is building AI, why aren't more projects in production?

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today. Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center.Learn more about Google’...

How do you evaluate an LLM? Try an LLM.

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user1083266, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database.See Privacy...

Diverting more backdoor disasters

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams....

Climbing the GenAI decision tree

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about the potential of AI inference with OpenVINO Notebooks.Check out the previous podcast with Intel, where we talk with Raymond Lo about ...

Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk.

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A developer discovered a backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility. Read more about the cyberattack here.A Microsoft technical report ...

What a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Jessica on LinkedIn.We've published several posts, including this most recent one, about our attempt to shape an ethical approach to comb...

Are long context windows the end of RAG?

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks, reportedly outperforms GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro.Recent research found ...

Will antitrust suits benefit developers?

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Small nations like Anguilla (.ai) and Tuvalu (.tv) are benefiting from their coveted domain names.The US government is suing Apple for violation of an...

Controlling cloud costs: Where to start, and where to go from there

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To learn more about the signs that indicate you may be paying more for your cloud computing that you should, check out DoIT’s seven red flags guide....

Data, data everywhere and not a stop to think

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cribl is a data management platform. Check out their sandbox or explore their products.Cribl Stream is their vendor-agnostic observability pipeline.If...

Is AI making your code worse?

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

GitClear is a developer-friendly code review tool that aims to deliver higher developer satisfaction and faster releases. Check out their blog or find...

Why the creator of Node.js® created a new JavaScript runtime

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Node.js® is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment.Deno is an open-source JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Explore the quick s...

Your whole repo fits in the context window

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI shops are now releasing LLMs optimized for RAG. Turn a repo into a prompt for a long-context LLM.Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and discove...

How Stack Overflow is partnering with Google to encourage socially responsible AI

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stack Overflow has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop an API—Overflow API—to give Gemini, Google’s AI model, access to Stack Overflow knowle...

A leading ML educator on what you need to know about LLMs

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Check out Maxime’s three-part LLM course. Part 1 “covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks.Part 2 “focuses on ...

Building GenAI features in practice with Intuit Mailchimp

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. If you want to try out generative AI in MailChimp, sign up...

Chunking express: An expert breaks down how to build your RAG system

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Build GenAI applications faster and cheaper with a vector database like Pinecone.New to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other GenAI topics? O...

It’s RAG time for LLMs that need a source of truth

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pinecone is a vector database that lets companies build GenAI applications faster for less cost.Read our primer on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG...

Optimizing both hardware and software for GenAI

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY INTEL Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, an...

How to convince your CTO it's worth paying down tech debt

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sema’s AI code monitor helps companies manage the risks and capture the benefits of AI in the software development lifecycle. Learn how it works her...

Down the rabbit hole in the Stack Exchange network

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Discussions are now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow. Check out this one about why people keep proclaiming the death of PHP or this one ...

Who owns this tool? A software component catalog to help devs find answers

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew has worked in many roles, including as Executive Manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he established and grew a platform engine...

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

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mobb offers AI-powered technology that automates vulnerability remediations with a goal of helping development teams significantly reduce their securi...

Exploring the inclusive tech revolution

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Find out why others have joined Shell.If you want to experience what being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies looks like, th...

The creator of PyTorch Lightning on the AI hype cycle

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

William is the CEO of Lightning AI and the creator of PyTorch Lightning, the lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research.Dive into th...

Building a PDF larger than the known universe

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to make a PDF bigger than Germany? Here’s one larger than the known universe. As its creator says, “it’s mostly empty space, but ...

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

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI-generated code is “not equivalent to reliable and robust code, especially in the context of real-world software development,” according to a ne...

How to beat Doom in just 600 years

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A theory explores how to play DOOM inside a human cell. Fair warning, you'll need about 600 years to complete the game.Looking for a good prompt build...

Inside Intuit's generative AI system, GenOS

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. Learn more about Intuit technology here.Congrats to Lifebo...

Agile works great...to a certain size

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special that mimics Carlin’s distinctive del...

Compression is understanding

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Find out what’s new with ML in production.Machine learning models must learn to unlearn.Open-source game engine Godot now has a free Nintendo Switch...

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

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A white-hat hacker uncovered security vulnerabilities in an AI-powered hiring system used by fast-food chains and hourly employees around the world. R...

Sending bugs back in time

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mariposa is a toy programming language that has time travel as a primary feature. Bugs are a thing of the past (literally)!Miss having a physical keyb...

Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it’s not a phone).How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration ...

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

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now you know: The human body can serve as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, effectively extending their range.A hackathon team used GenAI can c...

Maximum Glitch: How to break Tetris

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Willis Gibson, 13, closed out 2023 by becoming the first person to officially beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Here’s how he did it.Wan...

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

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will AI fundamentally change software development or just add some efficiencies around the edges?  Surveys from Stack Overflow and Github find north ...

He created Stanford's Deep Learning class. Programmers will need to learn faster

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Along with his work at Stanford, Katanforoosh is a founding member of deeplearning.ai and co-created the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera. He...

Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains what we'll see with UI 2.0

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Biilmann says we can't ignore the impact GenAI is having on developer productivity.  One of their engineers created a  GPT that automatically genera...

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

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY DOITThe broken nose in jail scam is on the rise. With AI improvements, it’ll get harder to spot. OWASP, a non-profit dedicated to soft...

A tax change is hurting startups and developers

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s home team episode, Ben and Ryan discuss the implications of a lapse in section 174 of the tax code. Here’s a great explainer on how it’...

Can an AI get depressed?

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does ChatGPT have seasonal depression?AIs aren’t building apps on their own, at least not yet—but they are helping developers build them. Read Isa...

Bringing context to alerting and incident management

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY FIREHYDRANTWhile FireHydrant is mostly known for their incident management software, they’re introducing Signals to modernize alerting ...

What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gemini, Google’s new AI model, is great at competitive programming, among other things.AI Explained is a YouTube channel that covers the latest deve...

One weird trick for teaching users your software

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

CommandBar is a user assistance platform (UAP). Their flagship product, Copilot, is an embedded user assistant agent that companies can configure to h...

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

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do LLMs herald the end of computer programming (as we know it)? A Harvard lecture weighs in on this contentious topic.An epic hardware bug story.Quest...

Will developers return to hostile offices?

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the year winds to a close, some big employers are facing lower-than-expected attrition rates—in other words, fewer people than expected are quitt...

Can GenAI 10X developer productivity?

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bito AI is an AI coding tool that helps developers work more productively with features like code completion within the IDE and personalized answers d...

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

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cloudflare is a cloud provider used by almost 20% of all websites. Developers new to Cloudflare can get started here.Cloudflare recently launched Work...

The AI assistant trained on your company’s data

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI, their AI assistant,...

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

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY CHRONOSPHEREEpisode notes:Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services. At Ub...

Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

ICYMI, listen to part one of this conversation.Craig is the cofounder and CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build sa...

How the cocreator of Kubernetes is helping developers build safer software

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stacklok helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Trusty is their fr...

He helped create Jira. Now he's searching for meaningful engineering metrics

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sleuth helps engineering teams systematically improve efficiency by tracking speed and release quality, preventing slowdowns and bottlenecks, and remo...

Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies.He coauthored the book Winning with D...

Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system.Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re bra...

Zero trust with zero problems

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (...

Forget the 10X engineer—it’s about building a 10X culture

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Find out why others have joined Shell. Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hirin...

Composable architecture

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At Netlify Compose 2023, Biilmann announced their new composable web platform. This isn’t Netlify’s first rodeo—we talked to them for episodes ...

Forget "No Code." Adios "Low Code." Say hello to "Yes Code!"

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The company says v0 is intended to author the first draft of your site or app, then help you iterate quickly. It won't mean the end of junior web deve...

The company making it easier to turn your coffee machine into a robot

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to our previous episodes with Eliot here and here.Viam is a software platform for building, monitoring, and managing data from smart machines, ...

Chatting with the GM of CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered pair programmer for AWS

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion trained on Amazon and open-source code that gives you coding suggestions in real time. In addition to being g...

No one likes meetings. Let's reduce their blast radius.

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling as...

Subatomic speed, math misadventures, and the biggest fraud trial in history

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going?Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize...

How an algo raver stays in key(boards)

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to hear more of her work, check out Alexandra’s Instagram. She uses Tidal Cycles and Supercollider to make algorithms that get people t...

USB-C for all, PHP 4EVA, and what do LLMs actually know (if anything)?

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben is watching AI Explained, a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications. Read Ryan’s article ​​Do large l...