A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked.

Max Pekarsky

Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity?

Ryan Donovan

Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)?

Bill Harding

It's time to delegate to the robots.

Ben Popper

The complex relationship of give-and-take in the knowledge journey is untangled in the results from the latest Stack Overflow Knows survey.

Erin Yepis

Wondering how to go about creating an LLM that understands your custom data? Start here.

Cameron R. Wolfe, PhD

Will prompt engineering replace the coder’s art or will software engineers who understand code still have a place in future software lifecycles?

Ryan Donovan

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.

Piper Lawson

Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work.

Cameron R. Wolfe, PhD

We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.

Karen Posada

The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.

Prashanth Chandrasekar

There are worries that GenAI systems may run out of fresh data as they scale. Synthetic data is an option, but using AI-generated data to train AI can degrade the model's performance. There may be a better solution. Can data quality overcome a loss of data quantity?

Ben Popper

We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.

Des Darilek

Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.

Ellen Brandenberger, Ryan Polk

The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.

Ellen Brandenberger, Ryan Polk

The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.

Ellen Brandenberger, Ryan Polk