If AI is the new power tool for developers, is there still value in artisanal craft when anyone can be a builder?

Phoebe Sajor

Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development.

Andrew Stellman

With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can AI solve the problems it's causing?

Ryan Donovan

In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe is joined by Stack Overflow’s tech lead for the infrastructure team, Josh Zhang, to learn about the cloud, compute, and data centers.

Phoebe Sajor

Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter.

Phoebe Sajor

Ingress-NGINX had been handling our traffic routing since moving to Kubernetes, but when it was announced it would be retired, we were forced to consider a new traffic routing solution.

Michael Frank

Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale.

Varun Raj

Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.

Phoebe Sajor

AI companies are looking a little different after going through a few renewal cycles.

Ryan Donovan

Prompts go in, output comes out, and the decisions made in between are hidden from view.

Jonathan Gordon

Are you still "human-in-the-loop," or have you moved to "human-on-the-loop," overseeing a bot that’s doing the driving?

Erin Yepis, Ryan Donovan

The most valuable AI tools in your enterprise stack do more than generate answers. They help developers determine which answers to trust.

Eira May

AI tool use is inescapable...especially if you're a young person trying to get an edge in an increasingly difficult job market. But cognitive offloading is dangerous, no matter what age you are. Building a knowledge base can save your brain and skills from atrophy.

Phoebe Sajor

Adoption and trust are moving in diametrically opposed directions, and that gap has real implications for organizations deciding how to spend money on software.

Eira May

Coding guidelines and standards for agents need to be a little different—more explicit, demonstrative of patterns, and obvious.

Ryan Donovan

The risk isn’t just that we’ll get lazy and become lousy at critical thinking; the risk is that we’ll outsource our judgement and lose the ability to make qualitative, moral, and interpersonal judgments altogether.

Ryan Donovan