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2026 62
- It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us
- The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated
- A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer
- Delivering controlled and concentrated context
- Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java
- Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated
- The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves
- Is AI really reshaping the developer market?
- Building Immersive Virtual Economies: An Introduction to KursarScript (KSPL)
- Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put
- Don't forget about the UI for AI
- Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
- AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong
- MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.
- Why your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could)
- October 15, 2026Issue 351: Happy sweet 16, Developer Survey!No one can deny that times are a-changing. Luckily, you’ve got the Annual Developer Survey to help you keep up with how software, technology, and the communities around them are evolving. We’ve spent the last 16 years tracking tech trends a
- Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Cory Hymel of Andela
- Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
- Keep calm and call clone with Rust
- Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
- A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages
- Taking a look under your agent’s hood
- Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
- A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
- October 8, 2026Issue 350: The new at Stack OverflowThere’s a lot of new happenings here at Stack Overflow, and we’re excited to share it with you! This week, we explore why organizations urgently need "decision-grade" knowledge when internal sources conflict or go stale, and celebrate the general av
- Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory
- Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer
- Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift
- Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
- Part 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined build
- Implementing a Modular Master-Agent Telemetry & Diagnostic Framework in Python: Prime-Sentinel Command (PSC)
- “Impossible to Hide Secret …”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-Native IDEs
- Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results
- The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
- Constraints that make developers faster
- A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
- October 1, 2026Issue 349: Professional skepticsNowadays, a little skepticism goes a long way. In fact, it may be one of the best skills a dev can have in the age of AI. BrowserStack’s David Burns joins us on the pod to discuss just that, plus the importance of applying test-driven development to you
- Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.
- Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal
- Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings
- Your phone is AI’s newest hardware
- Why model versioning is not enough for production AI
- Is Your “Human-in-the-Loop” Actually Slowing You Down? Here’s What We Learned
- Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill
- Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
- Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm
- The AI magic words
- From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
- AI, JD, and other letters of the law
- AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game
- (Re)introducing Developer Story
- Java’s age is its AI superpower
- Scaling your money safely with AI
- Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
- Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design
- Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
- No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?
- Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth
- Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience
- Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
- How we replaced Ingress-NGINX at Stack Overflow
- Turning scattered knowledge into trusted intelligence: Stack Internal 2026.3
2025 5
- A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant
- The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
- Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity
- Banking on innovation: Engineering excellence in regulated financial services
- Engineering teams need to adapt to AI’s scaling challenges
2024 1
2023 5
- He helped create Jira. Now he's searching for meaningful engineering metrics
- Journey to the cloud part II: Migrating Stack Overflow for Teams to Azure
- Journey to the cloud part I: Migrating Stack Overflow Teams to Azure
- What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow (Ep. 551)
- ML and AI consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 542)