How developer jobs (and the job market) changed in 2024

A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/27/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-chunking-in-rag-applicatio

During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/balancing-

There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/26/the-ghost-jobs-haunting-your-career-search/

Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing). https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/25/the-real-10x-devel

A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/

Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/23/can-a-programming-language-implement-time-travel/

Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/20/this-developer-tool-is-40-years-old-can-it-be-improved/