Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your frontend and your backend when using AI code.
From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonomous agents will ease developers' operational burdens.
Here's the lowdown on all the tech from 2025 that you, dear Zoomer, should know about.
Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding.
Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future holds for personalized user experiences in ecommerce.
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.
In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here's what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills.
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.
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.
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.
Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems.
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.
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.
As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the top questions from across our entire Stack Exchange Network.
Ryan is joined by Stack Overflow’s CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree on the floor at re:Invent to discuss all they’ve seen and heard at the event, from the future of AI agents to the trust issues the enterprise has around AI and the impact of AI and robotics on the job market.
HP's Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele shares how better knowledge access is allowing HP to experiment and modernize their software development lifecycle with the help of the Stack Internal MCP Server.
Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure generating UI on the fly would put on your backend systems, and why AI is just the latest and fanciest in a long line of CRUD apps.
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.
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.
Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable architectures.
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.
Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance of abstraction layers in making robotics more accessible, and the real-world applications of robotics from lobster traps to industrial sanding robots.
Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity.
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.
