This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs.

Erin Yepis

It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.

Charity Majors

Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security?

Ryan Donovan

A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.

Ryan Donovan

There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost.

Eira May

Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing).

Eira May

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