You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI
Pete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to say that looking at AI’s impact as a job killer is a flawed metric.
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Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run
Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites.
The most dangerous shortcuts in software
Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity.
A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant
Evaluating question quality and determining the appropriate feedback required some classic ML techniques in addition to our GenAI solution.
How AI is helping us build better communities
MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities.
AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers
For promising Gen Z students, a career as a software developer seemed like the golden ticket to career stability and success. But in the age of AI, the career promise for Gen Z software developers is gone.
Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive?
Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?
The AI ick
How we feel about AI-generated content, what AI detectors tell us, and why human creativity matters. Also, what is art?
Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology
Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather the normal next step in computing’s evolution. They explore the importance of democratizing access to technology, the unique challenges that LLMs’ non-determinism poses, and how developers can keep Stack Overflow’s ethos of community alive in a world of AI.
Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn
Ryan sits down with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, at AWS re:Invent to get Corey’s patented snarky take on all the happenings from the conference.
At AWS re:Invent, the news was agents, but the focus was developers
Four days, 60,000 developers, and AI-generated perfume. The re:Invent that was.
Simulating lousy conversations: Q&A with Silvio Savarese, Chief Scientist & Head of AI Research at Salesforce
AI yells at voice agents so you don't have to.
AI is a crystal ball into your codebase
Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Macroscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the need for humans-in-the-loop for PR reviews so AI tools can efficiently and effectively debug, and how AI can increase visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level and high signal-to-noise ratio code reviews.
The shift in enterprise AI—what we learned on the floor at Microsoft Ignite
There's a distinct shift in how enterprises are talking about their AI solutions. Speed and flashiness are giving way to steadier, slower, more focused AI strategies for companies, where market fit and proof points are more important than ever.
Postman’s journey and unlocking the power of APIs
Lessons learned building a global API platform, navigating hyper-growth, and API-powered AI agents.
Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer
The way that developers interact with knowledge has changed in the age of AI. That's why we created AI Assist—a new way for users to access our 17 years of expert knowledge, and how Stack Overflow is remaining the always-open-tab of programmers around the world.
Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success
Here, we’ve distilled the survey findings, laid out action items for leadership, and dug into recommendations around agentic AI for the enterprise. Spoiler alert: It all comes back to data quality.
You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs
Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies.
Only you can stop AI database drops
Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants.
One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community.
Discover how leveraging an intelligent, community-driven knowledge layer is the key to grounding probabilistic tools, preventing AI hallucination, and validating high-quality code.
Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software
Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control.
To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI
Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code.
Vibe coding needs a spec, too
Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent.
Live from the OpenAI forum: Learning to code in the age of AI
CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar will be speaking at a virtual fireside chat at the OpenAI Forum.
