Software security expert Tanya Janca, author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Staff DevRel at AppSec company Semgrep, joins Ryan to talk about secure coding practices. Tanya unpacks the significance of input validation, the challenges of trusting data sources, and the intersection of security and law. Bonus: what she learned trying to secure a Canadian national election. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/03/04/secure-coding-beyond-just-memory-safety/
Olga Beregovaya, VP of AI at Smartling, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the evolution and specialization of language models in AI. They discuss the shift from rule-based systems to transformer models, the importance of fine-tuning for translation tasks, and the role of human translators in ensuring reliable, high-quality output. They also touch on the implications of AI in language education and the challenges faced in implementing LLMs in enterprise workflows. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/2
For those that missed our February AMA, let’s discuss the future of Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/27/our-next-phase-q-and-a-was-just-the-beginning/
Want to train a specialized LLM on your own data? The easiest way to do this is with low rank adaptation (LoRA), but many variants of LoRA exist. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/26/variants-of-lora/
Animesh Mishra, senior solutions engineer at Diffblue, joins Ryan and Ben to talk about how AI agents can help you get better test coverage. Animesh explains how agentic AI can expedite and enhance automation and refactoring processes, how Diffblue leverages machine learning techniques to write effective unit tests, and why clear use cases and trust are so important in developing AI tools. Plus: Why Diffblue sees Copilot as a complement, not a competitor. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/24/wr
Ryan talks with senior engineering manager Caitlin Weaver about how her childhood fascination with computers led to her leading CLEAR’s Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team, her experiences in DevOps, the role of empathy in engineering management, and how the platform engineering landscape is evolving. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/21/one-quality-every-engineering-manager-should-have-empathy/
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/20/research-roadmap-update-february-2025/
How a theater major became a fullstack engineer building software to manage climate change. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/19/wbit-4-using-gis-to-understand-the-rivers-and-the-lakes-that-you-re-used-to/
Minh Nguyen, VP of Engineering at Transcend, joins Ryan for a conversation about the complexities of privacy and consent in tech, from the challenges organizations face in managing data privacy to the importance of consent management tools to the evolving landscape of privacy regulations. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/18/why-is-it-so-hard-for-companies-to-protect-your-privacy/
Ken Stott, Field CTO of API platform Hasura, tells Ryan about the data doom loop: the concept that organizations are spending lots of money on data systems without seeing improvements in data quality or efficiency. Their conversation touches on the challenges of data management, the impact of microservices, the importance of feedback loops in ensuring data quality, and how a data architecture that uses a supergraph would enhance data accessibility and quality. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/02/
