Ben and Ryan are joined by Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai, an AI workflow orchestration platform. They talk about how the transformer architecture supplanted convolutional neural networks in AI applications, the infrastructure required for AI implementation, the implications of regulating AI, and the value of synthetic data. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/12/a-student-of-geoff-hinton-yan-lacun-and-jeff-dean-explains-where-ai-is-headed/
It's time to delegate to the robots. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/11/developers-hate-documentation-ai-generated-toil-work/
Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, joins Ben and Ryan for a deep-dive conversation about the evolving landscape of web data. They talk through the challenges involved in data collection, the role of synthetic data in training large AI models, and how public data access is becoming more restrictive. Or also shares his thoughts on the importance of transparency in data practices, the likely future of data regulation, and the philosophical implications of more people using AI to innovate and solve pr
Will prompt engineering replace the coder’s art or will software engineers who understand code still have a place in future software lifecycles? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/07/no-code-only-natural-language-q-and-a-on-prompt-engineering-with-professor-greg-benson/
Today’s guest is Logan Kilpatrick, a senior product manager at Google, who tells Ben about his journey from software engineering to machine learning to product management, all with an emphasis on reducing developer friction. They talk through the challenges of non-determinism in AI models and how Google is addressing these issues with a new feature: Grounding with Google Search. Plus, what working at the Apple Store taught Logan about product management. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/05/ho
Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/04/research-roadmap-update-november-2024/
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/01/how-a-creator-of-react-is-rethinking-ides/
There are a ton of different ways to finetune a language model. Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purpose, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a seamless checkout experience, the importance of reducing friction in payment processes, and how documentation can directly assist the integration experience. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/30/pay
