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Issue 277: Looking for what's next

Here at Stack Overflow, we try to keep our community central to what we do. We've got a bunch of products, sure, but the public site has been the core, and we're kicking off efforts to align our brand—the idea of us we present to the world—with all the things we do. Check out the blog and meta post announcing it. To stick with the community theme, our community management department is giving you a peek into what they do all day. XX Besides that, we've had a busy week. Check out why Algorand thinks TypeScript is the best way to build on blockchains. COO of LinearB Dan Lines talks with Ben Matthews and Ben Popper about moving from development velocity to impact. The SO podcast learns about orchestrating microservices. For all you robots afraid we'd skip AI this week, worry not: we chat with Abby Kearns of Alembic about using AI and contact tracing techniques to find which 50% of your marketing budget is worthless. XX Around the network and the web, information is popping (do the kids still say that?). Is AI pushing people into messianic delusions? Do the Middle Earthlings know that Frodo actually botched the job? What do you call those without sin? And did network science predict the next pope?

Issue 276: Infrastructure two ways

Everybody talks about GenAI in terms of prompts and responses, but we're going to focus on the infrastructure and protections that make it happen. In the last of the HumanX podcasts, Ryan chats with SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang about reimaging the chipsets behind AI. We have a Q&A with Jack Berkowitz of Securiti about the liabilities—legal and otherwise—posed by bad data. We also chat about GenAI and the other kind of infrastructure—the physical kind used by utilities—with Greg Fallon of Geminus. xx We're also honing in on innovation itself, that mysterious X-factor that turns problems into solutions. Cameron Wolfe shares his take on GenAI's OG innovation, self-supervised learning, and why it made such an impact on natural language processing. In our latest Leaders of Code blog post, we expand on our conversation with Hilary Lanham, Head of Engineering Excellence at Lloyds Banking Group, to look at the ways that innovation puts money in the banks. xx Did you hear that the electrical grids of Spain and Portugal were offline for a whole day? Take a dive into induced atmospheric vibration, the suspected cause, in our Questions section. Plus! The grind of performance optimization! Bot farms shaping the narrative! And war! What is it good for besides technological advancements?

Issue 275: Platform agnostic

Complexity is one of those things that computer science and software engineering has sought to reduce over time. No, don't laugh, I'm serious. While new techs may come in and make our lives messier, soon the industry turns its mind towards simplifications: standards, reusable components, platform-independent solutions, and so on. --- We've got a lot of conversations for you along those lines. In the latest Leaders of Code podcast, Ben Popper chats with Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, and guests from Lloyds Banking Group about how to simplify and standardize a complex engineering org. On the main podcast, we have chats with the CEO of Dataiku about simplifying the data to genAI pipeline, and with Laly Bar-Ilan, Chief Scientist at Bit, about how they are using genAI to create reusable components, not code. --- And in the questions and links, we're dropping knowledge you didn't even know you needed. Is women and children first a discriminatory policy? Can you host your blog on a Wii? Are millennials also flat earthers? Would you buy a computer from a raccoon?

Issue 274: Automated for the people

Every other week, it seems like somebody has a new AI-related take or buzzword, and the rest of us have to sort out whether it's worth learning about. Like agents; what the heck are they? Fortunately, we dug into that very question to see what lies beneath the hype. Agents, like a lot of software, help automate tasks—we're got a look at how much you can automate sysadmin tasks. Then, with all these AI agents running rampant in your system, you need to think about scale—in our latest Leaders of Code, Recursion's VP of engineering Maureen Makes does just that. xx As we've often promised and occasionally delivered, we have more for you besides AI. In the latest We'll Be In Touch, Kyle sits down with former Stacker Michael Stum to chat about WebAssembly, how he learned to code by tackling Stack Overflow questions, and more. Speaking of Stack Overflow (aren't we always?), our private version, Stack Overflow for Teams, has a new release for Enterprise users. xx Okay readers, lightning round <airhorn>. How do you tell HR that you're quitting because your desk is terrible? Why does Discord see through time? What can you learn from the failure of a startup? Will the CVE database disappear when its grants run out?