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Issue 306: The crop circles have code

So, guess we're officially in the post-GenAI world, huh? If you're getting the feeling that the tech is just getting stronger, faster, and better, you're not alone—even the plants are starting to feel it. On the pod, Darryl Lyons from Rainstick joined us to talk about the advancements in AgTech and how they're using bioelectricity to literally make it rain...and enhance agricultural productivity. But it's not all daisies and rainbows in the tech world. We also had Mithril's Jared Quincy Davis on the show to discuss the GPU shortage (or lack thereof), and how the economics of GPUs are going to need to change in the age of AI. Besides getting your GPUs right, there are lots of things you're probably doing wrong with your AI strategy. Don't worry, we have a piece on the blog for you about what you need for enterprise success in the post-GenAI world. Hopefully that will calm some of the grief you feel when you read about how trillions are being spent on software projects that are still failing. Sometimes, the best way to get things done is just sitting down and doing it, as per another story from the web this week on how one dev team fixed 189 bugs in one week. And doesn't optimization, efficiency, and AI just make you hungry? If so, we have an EGGROLL for you—an Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning ML algorithm to be exact. If that ML algorithm doesn't satiate your hunger, maybe what you have is an appetite for knowledge. Even in a post-GenAI world, there are some questions only users on Stack can answer. For instance, is it illegal for chatbots to pretend to be human? Did you like Klondike Solitaire before it was cool? Will someone please help this poor person delete these files off their USB? We have those answers for you—and so much more—down in the links below.

Issue 305: New hair, new clothes, still Stack Overflow

It's been an eventful week at Stack Overflow. If you haven't heard yet, we're unifying all our different selves into a Voltron of knowledge. At Microsoft Ignite, we showcased the next generation of our enterprise product, now named Stack Internal. We won't say too much about it in this here newsletter intro, but if you want all the juicy details, we've got them for you on the blog. That's not the only new thing happening, either. Check out our Community Products update to hear about what new features we've got cooking for the public platform. XX Our time at Ignite showed us that AI and agents are here to stay, so we've got two pods for you this week on just that topic. Retool's David Hsu sat down with us to talk guardrails and high-level programming primitives for AI coding assistants, so that no data will be harmed the next time your nontechnical coworker loads up a vibe coding bot. We also had Assaf Elovic from monday.com on the pod to discuss how they create agents that users actually adopt. Spoiler alert: they do it by focusing on user experience. XX Maybe our new rebrand has our head a little big this week, so enough about us. We've also got plenty links from around the web, ranging from a homemade synthesizer toy to a startup game where you can finally be the rich investor throwing around your money. And what would an Overflow newsletter be without the gift of knowledge? If you're curious about three yolk eggs, nuking barrels of oil, or lighting farts on fire, you'll love this week's answers. All of those—and much more—are ready for your curious eyes down below.

Issue 304: Are you ten times more productive yet?

Feeling like AI makes more work than you expected? You're not alone. If your promised 10x productivity has not yet been realized, that's okay. We have the stories you need this week to help you get just a little bit closer. Secure Code Warrior's CTO Matias Madou was on the pod to preach the good word on the lost art of critical thinking, and what developer training will look like in the age of AI. Benjamin Klieger from Groq also joined us to talk AI agent infrastructure, so your agents can be faster at making you faster. We've also got a Leaders of Code episode for you with the VP of Platform Engineering from JP Morgan Chase & Co., Ramprasad Rai, on how enterprises are balancing AI productivity with compliance, so your 10x productivity doesn't get you into any legal battles. In a world of evolving technology, the people of the internet are evolving along with it. We have a story on web programs becoming more needy, a brutal(ist) look at programming languages, and one dev's insurmountable challenge to humanoid robots: be able to use a doggy bag. So, let's just circle back...are you ten times more productive? While you ponder the answer to that one, we have plenty of other questions for you. How old are trees? How deep can Leet speak go? Can you cancel that Venmo request you've been avoiding if the person owes you money in return—legally speaking? Those answers and more in the links below.

Issue 303: To abstract or not to abstract

To abstract or not to abstract? That's the question on our minds this week. Whether you're looking for more transparency or just trying to get your code out the door, we have plenty of stories for you. On the pod, we've got a chat with Graphite's Greg Foster on how to make your AI-generated code more secure. Spoiler: it's by giving humans more context and visibility into the code. We also spoke to Nic Benders from New Relic on the complexity crisis, and how developers don't just need observability, they need understandability. And if your feelings about abstraction and AI aren't complicated enough, make sure you read our blog on how AI is abstracting human creativity, written by our very own Eira May. All this talk about hidden layers has us wanting to be more transparent, too. We're sharing what's new on Stack Overflow for November—from voting, to anti-spam, to open-ended questions—in our first ever monthly update blog. Being a software developer can sometimes make you feel like you're in The X-Files, which is why one developer from the web is calling software the UFOlogy of engineering, and another is worrying about the death of frameworks because of LLMs' abstraction. But if you're ever worried about too much opacity, you can always go old-school and change your programming language; we have at least one dev in this week's issue who really thinks you should use OCaml if you do. But one thing hasn't changed: if you don't ask, you'll never know. So we have plenty of questions and answers this week that should give you a little clarity into the abstract. For instance: if something happens and I don't see it, did it really happen? Is a bot's Spotify Wrapped less valid than mine? Are the lyrics, "What if God was one of us?" still applicable if God has no birthday? Unabstract those abstracts in the links below.

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