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Issue 279: Experiments in community

We're rocking the mad scientist vibe this week, experimenting in our labs (which sadly do not have enough flasks and beakers). This quarter's CEO update lays out how we're tinkering and toiling to evolve into every developer's third screen. From our researchers, we've got a roadmap update, which dives into the specific experiments that we're running and what we're trying to learn. You can even check out one of those experiments now: Coding challenges are live! XX Turns out that we aren't the only ones trying new ways of doing things. On the podcast, Ben and Eira talk to Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, about how AI agents are changing the CRM game. When you're talking about experiments, you need to talk about safety, too. Our second podcast this week features a conversation about durable execution and making sure your microservices aren't playing in hardcore mode. XX Enough about us—what's everybody else talking about? Well, some folks are looking at the ways that AI is changing how software is being built, while others are saying that real productivity gains come from boring old processes and tech. Yet other people don't want to leave their oven on for the 15 minutes it takes them to prep the recipe. Productivity comes in all sorts of flavors.

Issue 278: Can software survive AI?

Sorry for the jump scare in the title, folks, but this week, we're taking big picture looks at AI and the software industry it supports (or destroys). On the blog, we have a look at the big bets being placed on AI companies and how this could shake out in the long term. For those big companies gobbling up small AI firms, are they ready for AI in revenue-generating production? We chat with Maryam Ashoori, the product leader behind IBM's watsonx. If you're looking to hear about something more fundamental, check out our podcast conversation with self-confessed observability nerd Henrik Rexed on breakpoint debugging in cloud-native applications. In the age of moving fast, does velocity actually measure an org's impact? We expand on our latest Leaders of Code podcast to explore real measures of development work. More? Well, our organic artisanal web crawlers have found a slew of lovely links. Is it true that a cat has the IQ of a toddler? How can you scale an impenetrable wall of jargon? What happened when Iceland moved to a four-day work week? Does your system need all that complexity or is it just complicated?

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?