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Issue 292: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's AI!

We're keeping it light this week...and by light, we mean we're pondering our existence and thinking about AI defense robots. That's light in a sort of "light as air" way, right? On the pod Nathan Michael, CTO at Shield AI, answered our burning questions, like if they're building terminators for the government. We've also got Tuhin Srivastava from Baseten on the pod to share with us about how AI is transforming the GPU game. If either of those have you worrying a bit about the future, maybe it'd be a good time to hop over to our Philosophy sites to read the answer to this questions: Why is life considered worth preserving? XX Okay, we'll lighten up. If you're thinking about the future in a more career-oriented way, we've got a blog piece for you on how great architects keep their ideas in order through documents. Plus, Morgan Stanley is thinking about the future as a chance to upskill their people through experiential learning, as shared with us by Senior Learning Specialist Christina Dacauaziliqua on Leaders of Code. And at the very least, the future is bright here at Stack Overflow—our latest research roadmap outlines how we're keeping our community strong this fall. XX See, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's like discovering the alternate ending to our favorite princess movie wasn't made up in our head, like one user did on the Movies site. Even a NEET of 15 years can find hope for fruitful employment, like another user did on the Workplace site. We've even got busy beaver hunters still trying to find that infinitely large sixth number, even if it would be impossible to write down. And if you're still feeling a bit pessimistic, just know that every bubble will pop, and you can always buy a burner phone. Both those stories, and the rest of them, are down in the links below.

Issue 291: Do you have a moment to chat about Chat?

This week, we've got quite a few interesting chats for you—and no, we don't just mean GPT-5. Chat on Stack Overflow is getting a big revamp, and we're sharing the first look of what's to come. On the pod, Wenjing Zhang and Caleb Johnson from LinkedIn's engineering teams chatted with us about semantic search and AI for job seekers. We're fans of Vue.js over here; all our marketing sites use it. For the Vue-heads like us out there, be sure to give our chat with Evan You about the future of Vue a listen. XX If you're not tired of reading the word "chat" yet, we've got a story from the web on parasocial relationships and how they affected the GPT-5 update. Speaking of AI updates, they've got us wondering: is Claude going to be smarter than us soon? We've got a link covering the IQ scores for different AI models, so if you're curious, you can see how you rank. But don't worry, even if the bots got into MENSA before you, we've got another piece to remind you that you're still funnier than them, and isn't that what really matters? XX If the IQ of your favorite LLM has you motivated to get your knowledge up, we've got plenty of factoids and answers for you this week. We'd like to see a bot come up with a creative answer for why there was a child at the Jurassic Park dig site or think of something really funny to laser engrave on a spaceship. Learn about both and more at the links below before AI gets there first.

Issue 290: Can you feel the vibes tonight?

Let's address the elephant in the room: yes, vibe coding is happening, and there's not much we can do to stop it. Wherever you land on the optimist-pessimist spectrum for AI-generated code, we've got stories for you. Optimist Quinn Slack from Sourcegraph joined the pod to talk AI coding in enterprise environments and how he imagines these tools are going to change the software engineering lifecycle. If you're looking for the downer side of the spectrum, read about the misadventures of the worst coder on our team, who tried to build something purely off vibes, only for it to be a mess of security issues. Don't worry, no data was hurt in the making of her app. XX If you're yearning for the early days of computers, when vibe coding was just a sci-fi dream, check out our pod with early adopter of Python and developer advocate Paul Everitt, who dives into the history of Python and what makes its community special. Then, go even further back in time and read a story from the web on the (surprisingly spicy) history of teletext around the world. If that cures your nostalgia, you can come back to the present and figure out with the rest of us how to fight AI slop...with more AI slop, probably. XX But if you need a break from thinking about the past and future of the internet, that's all right too. We've always got helpful answers for you. Why do your dishes smell so bad? Who should you ask to help you move this weekend, your taller or shorter friends? Do you sound exciting or neurotic when you add twenty exclamation points to the end of your paragraph?!!!! It's all covered in the links below.

Issue 289: We asked, you answered

It's that time of year again: the results of our 2025 Developer Survey are live. If you were taking bets with your friends on what the top programming languages would be this year, it's time to go see if you're a winner. Or, if you're more of an auditory learner, we spoke with Erin Yepis, our Senior Analyst, about all the juiciest bits from this year's results. XX Got your winnings in hand? Good, because we've got more for you. Mahir Yavuz, Senior Director of Engineering at Etsy, joined the podcast to talk the unique challenges of their marketplace. On Leaders of Code, Anirudh Kaul and Paul Petersen from U.S. Bank sat down with our very own Jody Bailey to dive into how traditional institutions like banks are navigating this new world of AI technology. And on the blog, we've got a story on imposter syndrome and AI usage, just in case those big bucks you just won from your bet is making that flare up for you. XX And of course, we've got plenty of tales, oddities, and answers from around the internet. Have you seen the video of someone saving a PNG image to a bird, or the story on creating digital fireflies at home? Elsewhere, there's a windy saga of a person who feared he was automating himself out of a job, but was eventually promoted to CTO. He should probably talk about job security with the author of one of our other links, who got hired by a company after he was unable to submit a PR just so he could fix it himself. Check them all out below.

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