The home team convenes to discuss the XZ backdoor attack, what great software engineers have in common, how GenAI is changing the face of drug development, and the rise of managed service providers for AI. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/09/want-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-don-t-be-a-jerk/
We sit down with Jessica Clark, a senior data scientist at Stack Overflow, to discuss how our company approaches generative AI and data quality. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/05/what-a-year-building-ai-has-taught-stack-overflow/
This new LLM technique has started improving the results of models without additional training. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/04/how-do-mixture-of-experts-layers-affect-transformer-models/
CodeGen is fast, but you need to be good. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/03/developers-with-ai-assistants-need-to-follow-the-pair-programming-model/
The home team is joined by Michael Foree, Stack Overflow’s director of data science and data platform, and occasional cohost Cassidy Williams, CTO at Contenda, for a conversation about long context windows, retrieval-augmented generation, and how Databricks’ new open LLM could change the game for developers. Plus: How will FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence of 25 years in prison reverberate in the blockchain and crypto spaces? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/02/are-long-context-windo
Ben and Ryan talk about how tiny nations are making huge money from their domain names, the US government’s antitrust case against Apple, the implications of a four-day work week, Reddit’s IPO, and more. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/29/will-antitrust-suits-benefit-developers/
In this episode, Ben and Ryan are joined by Joshua Fox, a senior cloud architect at DoiT, to discuss cloud cost optimization. They explore the importance of controlling and understanding cloud costs, the role of good architecture in cost optimization, and strategies for dealing with surprise costs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/27/controlling-cloud-costs-where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there/
This past year, we’ve explored and learned how AI can support the community on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. Read more to see our reflections and learn more about the initiatives our product team is prioritizing this year. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/27/community-products-reflections-and-looking-ahead/
Ben and Ryan are joined by Nick Heudecker, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Competitive Intelligence at Cribl, to discuss the state of data and analytics. They cover GenAI, the role of incumbents vs. startups, challenges of data storage and security, data quality and ETL pipelines, measures of data quality for GenAI, and Cribl’s role in the data and observability space. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/26/data-data-everywhere-and-not-a-stop-to-think/
Ben and Ryan are joined by Bill Harding, CEO of GitClear, for a discussion of AI-generated code quality and its impact on productivity. GitClear’s research has highlighted the fact that while AI can suggest valid code, it can’t necessarily reuse and modify existing code—a recipe for long-term challenges in maintainability and test coverage if devs are too dependent on AI code-gen tools. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/22/is-ai-making-your-code-worse/
