Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster
Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces the process.
What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in?
Ryan is joined by Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at IBM, to explore what infrastructure-as-code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it.
The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!
Once again, we're asking for your help to take the temperature of software development.
Best of the Heap: First post of the past
Let's take a moment to shout out all the articles we’re seen posted so far and encourage folks reading to reach out about your own.
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can AI solve the problems it's causing?
Pack your agentic stack in Slack
Ryan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate everybody’s agents in their chat application.
Introducing the Heap, the software engineering blog for everyone
If you’ve got something you’ve been dying to share with the Stack Overflow community but don’t quite have a place to share it, we've got you.
Welcome to the “find out” stage of AI
AI companies are looking a little different after going through a few renewal cycles.
Human input needed: take our survey on AI agents
Are you still "human-in-the-loop," or have you moved to "human-on-the-loop," overseeing a bot that’s doing the driving?
Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too)
Coding guidelines and standards for agents need to be a little different—more explicit, demonstrative of patterns, and obvious.
AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one
The risk isn’t just that we’ll get lazy and become lousy at critical thinking; the risk is that we’ll outsource our judgement and lose the ability to make qualitative, moral, and interpersonal judgments altogether.
AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs containers and sandboxes
In this sponsored episode, Ryan chats with Mark Cavage, President and COO of Docker, joins the show to dive into hardened containers and agent sandboxes.
Defense against uploads: Q&A with OSS file scanner, pompelmi
API and network traffic get all the press, but some folks are still trying to build a better upload scanner.
Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory
Quality software still needs high-quality code, AI agents or not.
Are you learning with AI? We want to know about it!
We're running a survey to understand how people are using AI to learn and whether that's helping, hurting, and replacing tools.
Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce
Security controls can be a bit of a cat and mouse game—you block one attack, new ones spring up.
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.
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.
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 Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
So long and thanks for all the bits!
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.
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.
