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

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

If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.

Ellen Brandenberger, Ryan Polk

Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.

Cameron R. Wolfe, PhD

How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?

Eira May

More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.

Ben Popper

It’s tempting to push projects out the door to woo and impress colleagues and supervisors, but the stark truth is that even the smallest projects should have proper review periods.

In today's data-driven world, Apache Kafka has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data streaming, particularly with the rise of AI and the immense volumes of data it generates.

Yaniv Ben Hemo

The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research.

Cameron R. Wolfe, PhD

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one of the best (and easiest) ways to specialize an LLM over your own data, but successfully applying RAG in practice involves more than just stitching together pretrained models.

Cameron R. Wolfe, PhD