Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?
It's time to delegate to the robots.
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The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
Ben welcomes Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat for a conversation about AI coding tools’ potential to boost developer productivity—and how to balance those potential gains against code quality and security concerns. They talk about Sonar’s origins as an open-source code quality tool, the excellent reasons to embrace a “clean as you code” philosophy, and how to determine where AI coding tools can be helpful and where they can’t (yet).
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results
We asked when and how often CodeGen tools fall short, what challenges developers face with these tools, and what they are doing with all of the free time these tools purport to offer.
Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model
CodeGen is fast, but you need to be good.
Will antitrust suits benefit developers?
Ben and Ryan talk about how tiny nations are making huge money from their domain names, the US government’s antitrust case against Apple, the implications of a four-day work week, Reddit’s IPO, and more.
Is AI making your code worse?
Ben and Ryan are joined by Bill Harding, CEO of GitClear, for a discussion of AI-generated code quality and its impact on productivity. GitClear’s research has highlighted the fact that while AI can suggest valid code, it can’t necessarily reuse and modify existing code—a recipe for long-term challenges in maintainability and test coverage if devs are too dependent on AI code-gen tools.
How to convince your CEO it’s worth paying down tech debt
On this episode: Matt Van Itallie, Founder and CEO at Sema, a company that assesses code to improve outcomes for users, companies, and developers. Plus, friend of the show and erstwhile cohost Cassidy Williams joins the conversation.
Would you trust an AI bot to find the fix for vulnerabilities in your code?
On this episode: Eitan Worcel, CEO and cofounder of Mobb, a company that uses AI to automate security vulnerability remediation, talks about how AI can help reduce security backlogs and free up developers’ time, what security risks emerge with GenAI, and why we still need a human in the loop.
AI isn't putting tech workers out of jobs, the stock price is
On today’s home team episode: a new study confirms that AI isn’t putting us out of business, why tech layoffs have been good for share prices, and the programming students learning to code with Copilot.
How to beat Doom in just 600 years
Ben and Ryan discuss how complex images (and maybe even interactive games) are being encoded in living cells, the latest trends in prompt engineering, and the educational benefits of gaming.
Can an AI get depressed?
Ben and Ryan discuss the golden age of digital piracy, the Sisyphean task of keeping kids off the internet, and seasonal depression in AI.
Can GenAI 10X developer productivity?
Anand Das, cofounder and CTO of Bito AI, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the intersection of developer productivity and GenAI.
Cloudflare Workers have a new skill: AI inference-as-a-service
Rita Kozlov, Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare, joins Ben, Ryan, and veteran cohost Cassidy Williams for a conversation about Cloudflare’s new AI service, what her day-to-day is like, and the mind-blowing “physicality” of the internet.
Is AI enough to increase your productivity?
Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one.
Chatting with the GM of CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered pair programmer for AWS
Ben talks with Doug Seven, a director of software development at AWS and the GM for CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, about his career building dev tools and how he hopes AI will give people more bandwidth for creative work.
Integrating AI tools into your workflow
For AI tools to be useful to your team, they have to fit into your existing workflows.
Like Python++ for AI developers
This is part two of our conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, Clang, and LLVM and CEO/cofounder of Modular AI.
Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C
Chris Lattner helped create Swift, Clang, and LLVM. Now CEO and cofounder of Modular AI, he tells the home team how they built Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that can be thousands of times faster than Python. This is part one of our conversation.
What we talk about when we talk about impostor syndrome
How does our emphasis on impostor syndrome keep us from having bigger, harder conversations about how to improve life for developers?
The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they're talking about?
Knowledge management and AI, VPN security, and an SVG deep dive.
Stress test your code as you write it (Ep. 581)
Itamar Friedman, CEO and cofounder of CodiumAI, and Kyle Mitofsky, a Senior Software Engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform, join the home team for a conversation about code integrity and how AI tools are changing the way developers work.
Let’s talk large language models (Ep. 550)
The home team unpacks their complicated feelings about AI, the Beyoncé deepfake that got kpop hopes up, and the pandemic’s ripple effects on today’s teenagers. Ben, the world’s worst coder, tells Cassidy and Ceora about building a web app with an AI assistant.
AI applications open new security vulnerabilities
Your ML model and AI-as-a-service apps might open new attack surfaces. Here's how to mitigate them.
