The home team chats with Alex Bovee, cofounder and CEO of identity access management company ConductorOne, about balancing security and productivity in developer workflows, why tech companies have shifted everything left, and the logic behind zero trust. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/27/zero-trust-with-zero-problems/
Both new tech talent and late-career developers are both more likely to be looking. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/26/hopping-instead-of-hustling-survey-tells-us-how-developers-are-taking-care-of-business/
On today’s sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk with James Simmonds and Tristan Sheppard, both principal software engineers and engineering leads in the power trading department at Shell, about how a century-old company is working to evolve into a place where developers and engineers love to work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/25/forget-the-10x-engineer-it-s-about-building-a-10x-culture/
On this episode Ryan and Stack Overflow Director of Brand Design David Longworth chat with Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify, about composable architecture, how making it easier to code will create more developers, and the future of the front end is portability. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/24/composable-architecture/
The core challenge posed by generative AI right now is that unlike conventional applications, LLMs have no “delete” button. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/23/privacy-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
We chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, about v0: a generative AI Vercel built that produces code for web components based on a user's text description of a UI or interface. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/20/vercel-gen-ai-vo-web-components-interface/
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/18/retrieval-augmented-generation-keeping-llms-relevant-and-current/
Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that). https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/17/the-company-making-it-easier-to-turn-your-coffee-machine-into-a-robot/
Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/16/is-ai-enough-to-increase-your-productivity/
Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/16/stack-overflow-company-announcement-october-2023/
