Product manager Ash Zade joins the home team to talk about the journey to OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that’s available now. Ash describes how his team built ...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/17/overflowai-and-the-holy-grail-of-search/
We're excited to announce the general availability of OverflowAI to Stack Overflow for Teams! OverflowAI represents a big step forward in our vision of integrating GenAI offerings within knowledg...
On this episode: Al Sweigart is a software developer, developer advocate, and author of ten Python books. He tells Ben and Ryan why he’s such a fan of the language, why it’s a great programmi...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/14/spreading-the-gospel-of-python/
Only about 5% of GenAI projects lead to significant monetization of new product offerings.
Eira and Ryan talk with Chris Ferdinandi, a front-end developer and ADHD advocate, about his diagnosis experience, the importance of accommodations for neurodivergent folks, and some advice for d...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/10/between-hyper-focus-and-burnout-developing-with-adhd/
Marco Palladino, CTO and cofounder of cloud-native API gateway Kong, talks with Ryan about the complexities of multi-cloud Kubernetes architecture, how AI has the potential to improve infrastruct...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/07/reshaping-the-future-of-api-platforms/
Ben and Ryan are joined by software developer and listener Patrick Carlile for a conversation about how the job market for software engineers has changed since the dot-com days, navigating boom-a...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/03/the-reverse-mullett-model-of-software-engineering/
All about the research that the User Experience team will be focused on over the next quarter and how you can help.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/01/upcoming-research-at-stack-overflow/
In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see updates that make collaboration smarter and knowledge discovery easier. This release also includes OverflowAI, a GenAI-powere...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/30/collaborating-smarter-overflowai/
On this episode: The FTC bans most noncompete agreements, the implications of the TikTok “ban,” why a 2017 law is hitting startups with huge tax bills seven years later, and the return of net...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/30/net-neutrality-is-in-tiktok-and-noncompetes-are-out/
Dr. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, shares how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced in creating SQLite, and the importance of testing and maintaining the software for long-term ...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/26/supporting-the-world-s-most-used-database-engine-through-2050/
Should a language be easy or comprehensive?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/25/what-language-should-beginning-programmers-choose/
The home team talks about the current state of the software job market, the changing sentiments around AI job opportunities, the impact of big players like Facebook and OpenAI on the space, and t...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/23/is-genai-the-next-dot-com-bubble/
Ben and Ryan explore why configuration is so complicated, the right to repair, the best programming languages for beginners, how AI is grading exams in Texas, Automattic’s $125M acquisition of ...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/19/why-configuration-is-so-complicated/
Ben talks with Shane McAllister, lead developer advocate at MongoDB, Stanimira Vlaeva, senior developer advocate at MongoDB, and Miku Jha, director, AI/ML and generative AI at Google Cloud, about...
On this episode: Stack Overflow senior data scientist Michael Geden tells Ryan and Ben about how data scientists evaluate large language models (LLMs) and their output. They cover the challenges ...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/16/how-do-you-evaluate-an-llm-try-an-llm/
The key strategies for building a headache-free data platform.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/15/how-to-succeed-as-a-data-engineer-without-the-burnout/
In the wake of the XZ backdoor, Ben and Ryan unpack the security implications of relying on open-source software projects maintained by small teams. They also discuss the open-source nature of Li...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/12/diverting-more-backdoor-disasters/
In this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan are joined by Ria Cheruvu, an AI evangelist at Intel, to discuss the different approaches to incorporating AI models into organizations.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/10/climbing-the-genai-decision-tree/
The home team convenes to discuss the XZ backdoor attack, what great software engineers have in common, how GenAI is changing the face of drug development, and the rise of managed service provide...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/09/want-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-don-t-be-a-jerk/
We sit down with Jessica Clark, a senior data scientist at Stack Overflow, to discuss how our company approaches generative AI and data quality.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/05/what-a-year-building-ai-has-taught-stack-overflow/
This new LLM technique has started improving the results of models without additional training.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/04/how-do-mixture-of-experts-layers-affect-transformer-models/
CodeGen is fast, but you need to be good.
The home team is joined by Michael Foree, Stack Overflow’s director of data science and data platform, and occasional cohost Cassidy Williams, CTO at Contenda, for a conversation about long con...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/02/are-long-context-windows-the-end-of-rag/
Ben and Ryan talk about how tiny nations are making huge money from their domain names, the US government’s antitrust case against Apple, the implications of a four-day work week, Reddit’s IP...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/29/will-antitrust-suits-benefit-developers/
In this episode, Ben and Ryan are joined by Joshua Fox, a senior cloud architect at DoiT, to discuss cloud cost optimization. They explore the importance of controlling and understanding cloud co...
This past year, we’ve explored and learned how AI can support the community on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. Read more to see our reflections and learn more about the in...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/27/community-products-reflections-and-looking-ahead/
Ben and Ryan are joined by Nick Heudecker, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Competitive Intelligence at Cribl, to discuss the state of data and analytics. They cover GenAI, the role of incu...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/26/data-data-everywhere-and-not-a-stop-to-think/
Ben and Ryan are joined by Bill Harding, CEO of GitClear, for a discussion of AI-generated code quality and its impact on productivity. GitClear’s research has highlighted the fact that while A...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/22/is-ai-making-your-code-worse/
Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno, tells us about his journey into software development and the creation of Node.js. He explains why he started Deno, a new JavaScript runtime. Ryan also intr...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/19/why-the-creator-of-node-js-r-created-a-new-javascript-runtime/
Users have been sharing the spark that started them on their journey as computer programmers. From IRC to Minecraft, users found a passion that became a career.
The home team discusses the challenges (hardware and otherwise) of building AI models at scale, why major players like Meta are open-sourcing their AI projects, what Apple’s recent changes mean...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/15/your-whole-repo-fits-in-the-context-window/
Ben talks with Ryan Polk, Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow, about our strategic partnership with Google Cloud, the importance of collaboration between AI companies and the Stack Overflow c...
Machine learning scientist, author, and LLM developer Maxime Labonne talks with Ben and Ryan about his role as lead machine learning scientist, his contributions to the open-source community, the...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/08/a-leading-ml-educator-on-what-you-need-to-know-about-llms/
In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see updates that make collaboration more intuitive and meaningful at several different touch points in the user journey, includin...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/07/stack-overflow-for-teams-new-homepage/
Ryan and Ben chat with Shivang Shah, Chief Architect, and Jon Fasoli, Chief Design & Product Officer, both of Intuit Mailchimp, about implementing GenAI and how all the pieces came together to ma...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/06/building-genai-features-in-practice-with-intuit-mailchimp/
This is part two of our conversation with Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, about retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and why it’s crucial for the success of your AI i...
Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/04/in-rust-we-trust-white-house-office-urges-memory-safety/
On this episode: Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, joins Ben and Ryan to break down what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is and why the concept is central to the AI ...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/01/it-s-rag-time-for-llms-that-need-a-source-of-truth/
Stack Overflow is on a journey to build a new era in the practice of AI: the era of social responsibility. All products based on models that consume public Stack Overflow data are required to pro...
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/defining-socially-responsible-ai-how-we-select-api-partners/