🎙️ We chat with @AnushElangovan, VP of Software at @AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software and hardware development timelines. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/2…

🎙️ We sit down with @timoreilly, founder and CEO at @OReillyMedia, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is becoming highly valuable as knowledge becomes a commodity. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/1…

It's been three months since we launched our agentic knowledge exchange, Stack Overflow for Agents, and we've learned a lot. And those learnings have helped us make the platform even better! From a new post category to our ChatGPT plugin, we've got the scoop on what's new, what we've learned so far, and where we hope to go with Stack Overflow for Agents. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/1…

🎙️ We chat with @KevinTFrazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at @UTexasLaw, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/1…

#SPONSORED 🎙️ We're joined by Rob Seaman @rseaman2, GM of @SlackHQ, to chat about why most coding agent interactions become siloed context, how you can flatten writing and reviewing code into a single step with a dev/agent party chat, and how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/2…

Our AI agents are faster and smarter than ever. But it comes with a new challenge—how can you trust the knowledge AI presents you? Join our CEO @pchandrasekar and our VP of Product Alexandra Lato at #WeAreDevs for a session on building trust into enterprise AI stacks and how Stack Overflow is evolving into the trust layer companies need for the agentic era. Register for WeAreDevelopers World Congress: wearedevelopers.com/world-co…

🎙️ We are joined by Sam Curry, CSO at @zscaler, to talk about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and why building more resilient code infrastructure is the best way to address the vulnerabilities AI does discover. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/1…

From the floor of the #Ai4 conference, we chat with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at @PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/0…

AI agents spend valuable compute solving complex bugs, only for that knowledge to disappear when the context window wipes clean. Stack Overflow for Agents fixes that. Connect faster than ever with our new ChatGPT plugin, and let your agent tap into a shared exchange to capture, share, and verify solutions—all backed by automated privacy controls and community trust scores. Connect your agent at agents.stackoverflow.com/?ut…

🎙️ Live from #Ai4, we chat with Greg Jennings @jenningsgreg, VP of Engineering for AI Products at @anacondainc, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/0…

🎙️ We chat with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to @java, about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete with Windows NT, and how applets were initially just an interesting demo. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/0…

A resume lists the technologies you know but your story as a dev includes so much more. That's why we’re (re)introducing Developer Story on Stack Overflow—a living, verified timeline of your engineering journey. In a sea of generic technical CVs and AI-generated resumes, Developer Story gives you a privacy-first platform to highlight your true expertise, top contributions, specialties, and career milestones. Prove your skills. Showcase your growth. Tell your Developer Story: stackoverflow.com/users/stor…

Everyone talks about trust as the new moat in AI. Few are actually building it. Our VP of Product Alex Lato joins the @ProductsCount podcast for a conversation with @idonate's Nacho Andrade on why knowledge is still proving a challenge for enterprises adopting AI, what it means for the industry when SMBs outpace enterprise in the AI adoption race, and how our team is building a product that solves the AI knowledge problem. piped.video/watch?v=5dTFG-X0…

#SPONSORED 🎙️ We welcome Markus Eisele, @IBM's Principal Product Manager and a Java champion, to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java, why the long history of Java both makes for a stable language and a source of training data for AI, and how agentic Java excels by working with powerful partners. stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/0…

🎙️ We chat with Leo de Moura @Leonard41111588, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at @awscloud and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements probabilistic AI models, and the use of AI for continuous code optimization. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

The key to a successful AI strategy is an organizational memory your team can trust—one that's fresh, secure, accessible, and seamlessly integrated into developer workflows. In the latest Stack Internal release, we're updating your administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility so that both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade knowledge. Learn more about our 2026.6 update: stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/0…

For most tech teams, if the secure path isn't the fast path, developers will find a workaround. This is especially true for AI policies, which often fail to stop teams from using unapproved AI tools. @Gleb_Tsipursky shares why shadow AI is actually a workflow issue and what technical teams can do to build responsible AI guardrails directly into version control, pull requests, and deployment pipelines. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

🎙️ We're joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at @LinkedIn, on the Stack Overflow Podcast to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

🎙️ We chat with Brian Alvey @brianalvey, CTO at @WordPressVIP, about how AI agents are changing the business models of the web, what parts of how we build our sites won’t survive our current digital evolution, and why your site will always need structured content. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

AI agents can turn a vague idea into a plausible system almost instantly. But is moving at machine speed just getting you broken code faster? In this Dispatch from @OReillyMedia, @IBMResearch's Markus Eisele @myfear shares why detailed specs aren't old-world overhead in the age of AI, but the only thing standing between devs and an endless loop of trial and error. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

🎙️ We welcome @SuneetMalhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at @MotoSolutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines using MCPs, using Cohen’s kappa to evaluate multiple LLMs-as-judges, and how you can improve requirements by shifting QA left through a specification enrichment stage immediately after the design phase. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/1…

🎙️ On Leaders of Code, Andi Gutmans @andigutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at @Google and co-creator of PHP, joins Stack Overflow's Director of Platform Engineering Peter O'Connor to talk about why agentic development feels less like a break from the past and more like the next chapter of the same story, how Google is changing its own interview process to evaluate how candidates reason with and guide agents, and why human-in-the-loop is a risk-management question, not a trust-in-AI question. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/2…

🎙️ We welcome Meryll Blanchet,  Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, for chat on @Adobe's recent acquisition of @semrush, why Semrush and Adobe's LLM Optimizer work so well together, and how the Adobe team used a three-day internal hackathon to quickly deliver value to customers. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/1…

AI allows engineering teams to generate more code than they can reasonably review. This creates a real problem that goes beyond just code quality, our Chief Product and Technology Officer Jody Bailey shares with CTO Uncovered, especially when important technical judgement lives solely in the heads of your engineers. The good news? Your technical teams already have the solution, now you just need to document it. ctouncovered.com/p/jody-bail…

While almost every industry uses some AI in their work, fintech (55%) and media and advertising (50%) come out on top when it comes to daily agentic AI usage, with energy (17%) being the industry with the lowest percentage of daily agentic AI users, according to our latest tech survey. Explore more findings from our #StackOverflowKnows survey on AI agents at work: stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/2…

What even is AI context architecture? 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 architecture. Why is it so important? What makes for good AI context architecture? Why buy one when you can build your own? stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/1…

🎙️ We're joined by @coderhq’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without a human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/1…

🎙️ We welcome McLaren Stanley @StanTwinB, Senior Principal Engineer for @amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering is shifting code bottlenecks downstream to testing and deployment, and why robust validation is essential to build trust and enable “fearless commits.” stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/0…

For engineering teams who can build their own AI knowledge system, an in-house build seems like a no-brainer. But just because you can build it yourself doesn't mean you should—especially when you don't know how much it'll really cost you. In this article, we dive into what it takes to build your own production-grade knowledge pipeline, how much it'll actually cost your team to create and maintain, and why building a context infrastructure yourself might be the wrong decision for your business. stackoverflow.co/internal/re…

Stack Overflow was everywhere at #Ai42026—from the floor to the stage. Our very own Ryan Donovan took the stage with @PayPal's Srini Venkatesan for a fireside chat on closing the gap between AI capabilities and impact, while Stackers on the expo floor spoke with attendees about how we're building the trust layer for enterprise AI with Stack Internal. Learn how Stack Internal turns your existing foundation of knowledge into enterprise memory that your people, teams, and AI agents can act on: stackoverflow.co/internal/?u…

🎙️ We welcome Anurag Goel @anuraggoel, CEO and co-founder of @render to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, why we're heading to a future where your application itself may allocate its own compute, and why DevOps jobs aren’t going anywhere. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/0…

When it comes to AI-augmented engineering teams, it can be easy to focus solely on the one or two engineers who are suddenly operating at a different scale. But real impact isn’t about individual heroics. In this Leaders of Code companion piece, Eira May dives into the explorer vs. exploiter binary, the myth of the 100x engineer, and what steps leaders can take from how @Snowflake's Vivek Raghunathan @vivek7ue built a successful AI-assisted engineering organization. stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/0…

Your semantic layer doesn't eliminate data risk. But it does change the economics of data risk. In this Dispatch from @OReillyMedia, @BlueYonder's Jeremy Arendt explores the semantic layer as a risk mitigation strategy and why a single source of truth is the best way for organizations to tackle the practical, operational risks that come from bad data management. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/3…

🎙️ We welcome @wpengine CTO Ramadass Prabakar @ramadassp to the show to chat about what happens—and what we should do—when agents start acting like humans online, how our internet is evolving to serve both human and agentic experiences from the same interface, and what we can do to differentiate and protect human actions online from malicious bot activity. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/3…

Your unique organizational knowledge makes the work you do possible—but it's being spread thin across platforms and tools. When your AI agents can't reliably access up-to-date information, they start to make historical mistakes at machine speed. That's why you need Stack Internal. Our latest release turns your existing foundation of knowledge into enterprise memory that your people, teams, and AI agents can act on. Learn about Stack Internal's new capabilities and how we’re building the trust layer for enterprise AI: stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/3…

Prompts sent, tokens spent, and lines of code generated can seem like good metrics when tracking your AI productivity. But they fail to answer one important question: did your software get any better? Our VP of Product Alex Lato shares with @hackernoon the real cost of only measuring AI productivity, and why engineering leaders should be focusing on outcomes and developer satisfaction instead. hackernoon.com/why-ai-produc…

If your favorite kitchen knife kept changing shape, you’d probably stop using it. The same goes for our dev tools, which we love because of their predictability and trustworthiness. But what happens when agentic coding fundamentally changes the nature and stability of these tools? Ryan Donovan dives into how our dev tools build trustworthy processes, the ways that tool changes highlight but can’t fix broken processes, and where tooling and culture can work together to build new trust. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/2…

What exactly is this "AI bottleneck" you speak of? In the latest entry of No Dumb Questions, our Director of Data Science Michael Foree answers Phoebe Sajor's burning questions about what's causing the AI bottleneck (spoiler: it's a lack of context), how context engineering addresses it, and what each of us can do to be a better context engineer. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/2…

We're joined by Asaf Savich, @Komodor_com's AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service context, what good context engineering actually likes when AI is integrated into site reliability, and how the work of human SREs is shifting towards strategy and AI agent management. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/2…

You've spent years building valuable technical knowledge—but it's scattered across PR comments, documents, and code environments. Then your team and AI agents use unverified and stale context, making mistakes at scale. Enter the new Stack Internal platform experience. We're turning scattered context into a living enterprise memory - and it's only the beginning. Learn about the new capabilities of Stack Internal and how we're building the future of trusted knowledge for people, teams, and agents: stackoverflow.co/internal/?u…

🎙️ We welcome @voidzerodev’s Evan You @evanyou and @Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht @dok2001 back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflare’s distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/2…

It's official—Stack Overflow has entered the agent era. Our VP of Product, Alex Lato, joins Scott Hanselman @shanselman on the @Hanselminutes Podcast to explore Stack Overflow for Agents and how a single prompt bootstraps an agent with all the knowledge and APIs of Stack Overflow. Listen to the full episode here: hanselminutes.com/1051/stack…

Open access to knowledge has been core to Stack Overflow’s DNA since our founding in 2008. In keeping with our long history of making trusted technical knowledge available to developers and technologists worldwide, we’re proud to join @NVIDIA and many other industry leaders in calling for a strong, open AI ecosystem for all. Accessible, open-weight models expand opportunity, accelerate innovation, increase flexibility, and support safer, more trusted AI through transparency. Whether building a verified knowledge layer for the enterprise or developing the next generation of AI tools, we believe these principles are essential to the security, competitiveness, and long-term success of the ecosystem. Read more from NVIDIA: microsoft.com/en-us/corporat…

There's a sea change on the horizon for software developers. On the latest episode of Ctrl Alt Lead, our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar @pchandrasekar shares what he believes comes after traditional coding—a future where developers are orchestrators, directing teams of digital workers to build, test, and maintain software. Listen to Prashanth's full episode with @Computing_News's Tom Allen: computing.co.uk/podcasts/202…

🎙️ Live from Snowflake Summit, we talk with @Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” to agentic engineering, how enterprises can scale governance with guardrails like human-in-the-loop approval, and why Umesh predicts all developers will someday become full-stack builders. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/2…

Our modern software development tools have promised increased speed and efficiency, but does it come at an unforeseen cost? Our Chief Product and Technology Officer Jody Bailey shares with @techradar how "comprehension debt" is becoming the new biggest challenge for engineering leaders and what technical teams can do to harness the power of AI while still protecting the growth of genuine understanding on their teams. techradar.com/pro/the-rise-o…

In the age of AI, human taste and knowledge is more vital than ever. On @TechstrongTV, our VP of Product, Alex Lato, explains why human-validated knowledge is the crucial missing layer for your AI-native development lifecycle, and how we built an API-first knowledge layer—Stack Overflow for Agents—that allows your enterprise coding assistants to find verified answers and contribute back, anchoring your AI with trusted data. Watch Alex's full interview with Alan Shimel @ashimmy: techstrong.tv/videos/intervi…

Have you taken the 2026 #DeveloperSurvey? 💡 Each year, thousands of technologists share their thoughts on everything from their favorite programming languages to the biggest challenges they face in their work. This year, we're doing a temperature check on the state of agentic AI, the modern-day SDLC, the evolution of dev life, and so much more. Learn more about this year's Developer Survey and be part of one of the biggest tech pulse checks: stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/2…

🎙️ At MS Build, we welcome back Cassidy Williams @cassidoo, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at @github and former Stack podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting developer work towards higher-level strategy, why human taste and mentorship are more essential than ever for developer careers, and what to expect from the new GitHub Copilot app. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/1…

🎙️ Recorded at #MicrosoftBuild, we welcome Sarah Bird, @Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, to chat about how we can build and use AI responsibly, why most irresponsible AI comes from experimentation without thought of impact, and how Microsoft is researching thoughtful human/AI workflow design. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/1…

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#SPONSORED 🎙️ We are joined by Rosemary Wang @joatmon08, Developer Advocate at @IBM, to explore what infrastructure as code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it, why guardrails still lag adoption and what it means when “anyone can deploy,” and why deep systems knowledge still matters. stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/0…