Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/24/would-you-board-a-plane-safety-tested-by-genai/
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/2024/05/22/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/
Ben and Ryan talk with Vikram Chatterji, founder and CEO of Galileo, a company focused on building and evaluating generative AI apps. They discuss the challenges of benchmarking and evaluating GenAI models, the importance of data quality in AI systems, and the trade-offs between using pre-trained models and fine-tuning models with custom data. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/21/how-to-train-your-dream-machine/
This year we are asking familiar questions about your experience, but also have some new questions about what embedded programming technology you are using and what AI ethical responsibilities are most important to you. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/20/the-good-the-bad-and-the-disruptive-let-us-know-where-you-stand-in-the-2024-annual-developer-survey/
Product manager Ash Zade joins the home team to talk about the journey to OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that’s available now. Ash describes how his team built Enhanced Search, the problems they set out to solve, how they ensured data quality and accuracy, the role of metadata and prompt engineering, and the feedback they’ve gotten from users so far. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/17/overflowai-and-the-holy-grail-of-search/
We're excited to announce the general availability of OverflowAI to Stack Overflow for Teams! OverflowAI represents a big step forward in our vision of integrating GenAI offerings within knowledge communities. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/14/introducing-overflowai-a-new-era-of-community-driven-ai-at-stack-overflow/
On this episode: Al Sweigart is a software developer, developer advocate, and author of ten Python books. He tells Ben and Ryan why he’s such a fan of the language, why it’s a great programming language for beginners, and how it became the default for so many data science and backend AI projects. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/14/spreading-the-gospel-of-python/
Only about 5% of GenAI projects lead to significant monetization of new product offerings. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/13/why-do-only-a-small-percentage-of-genai-projects-actually-make-it-into-production/
Eira and Ryan talk with Chris Ferdinandi, a front-end developer and ADHD advocate, about his diagnosis experience, the importance of accommodations for neurodivergent folks, and some advice for devs looking for the best tools and tactics for managing ADHD at work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/10/between-hyper-focus-and-burnout-developing-with-adhd/
Marco Palladino, CTO and cofounder of cloud-native API gateway Kong, talks with Ryan about the complexities of multi-cloud Kubernetes architecture, how AI has the potential to improve infrastructure management, and how Kong’s large action model will reshape the future of API platforms. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/07/reshaping-the-future-of-api-platforms/
