Behind the scenes with OverflowAI Search
Go behind the scenes with how we designed our new search.



Go behind the scenes with how we designed our new search.
Semantic search and augmenting LLMs have sent everyone turning their text into vectors. But where do you store all that vector data?
The conventional metaphor for career success is a ladder, but there are a lot of problems with this narrative.
Stack Overflow for Teams' journey to the cloud started with a new name.
If you want the tech debt metaphor to really shine, get some numbers behind it.
A Qualcomm expert breaks down some of the tools and techniques they use to fit GenAI models on a smartphone.
If edge functions were an onion, most of the layers would be caching.
Semantic search allows users to search using natural language instead of a rigid syntax of keyword manipulation.
DevOps has helped lots of organizations improve their processes, but others have only seen frustration and burnout.
Faster websites through piggybacking on existing network architecture.
Syndicating code globally to be deployed locally allows just-in-time modifications to customize web apps.
Large language models seem to possess the ability to reason intelligently, but does that mean they actually know things?
Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization.
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
It’s easy to ask for, and even want, feedback in a sort of theoretical sense. But soliciting and responding to feedback are, themselves skills.
The tech that's hot or not, and how work is changing.
If you’re thinking about rolling out a new tool to your team, you should also be thinking about how to get colleagues and management on board, how to embed that tool in your everyday workflows, and how to assess whether it’s working as it should. Tech that solves human problems needs humans to participate in those solutions.
Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level.
For this followup post, we spoke with two Stack Overflow software engineers with ADHD about their experiences being diagnosed as adults, taking medication, and communicating about their ADHD at work.
Our senior data scientist goes deep in talking about how we built our course recommendation engine.
If you want to get the attention of a employer, marketing has the techniques to get you there.
Attention—the time and freedom to focus—is your team’s most valuable resource.