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Issue 270: Slop-free since 2008

We just flew back from the HumanX conference, and boy are our arms tired...from holding a microphone to interview so many interesting folks about AI. We've dropped the first interview from the conference, and forgive us, it's a self-link. Our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar talks all about our place in the AI landscape and what we found interesting over the three days at the conference. --

Naturally, we're sharing a greater bounty in this newsletter. Want to know about building a mobile framework, tracing errors with AI, and the best way to fine-tune your data strategy? We've got you covered. --

So what's the rest of the Stack Exchange network, perhaps the world at large, talking about these days? Trained crows, the speed at which the days get longer, and the definitions of font and printer. As a closer to this meal, please enjoy a little dismantling of the worry that AI and vibe coders are going put you terminal jockeys out of business.

From the blog

WBIT #5: Building a framework to lure web devs to mobile

Kyle interviews Maria Hutt about building the Ionic mobile framework.

Improving error monitoring with AI

Tillman Elser, AI/ML lead at Sentry, joins Ryan for a conversation about improving error monitoring with AI and ML. They talk through the challenges of analyzing stack traces, the innovative use of embeddings to improve error grouping, the trial-and-error process of developing algorithms, and where Sentry’s AI capabilities are headed next.

To get ahead with AI, fine-tune your data strategy

In the first episode of our new podcast series, Leaders of Code, we sat down with Don Woodlock, Head of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, and Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar to discuss data strategy's critical role in AI development.

An AI future free of slop

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar sat down with Ryan at HumanX 2025 to talk about how Stack is integrating AI into its public platform, the enormous importance of a high-quality knowledge base in your AI journey, how AI tools are empowering junior developers to build better software, and much more.

OpenTelemetry 2025 Trends Every Developer Should Know

Explore OpenTelemetry's latest advancements, from semantic conventions and profiling to GenAI observability. Find out how these trends are shaping smarter, scalable observability strategies for today’s complex software ecosystems.

Interesting questions

Could AI be Picasso if he had never existed?

Picasso said that art is theft, so to innovate, does AI just need to be a better thief?

How do I handle this lay off dilemma as middle management?

"The company should have properly prepared for this. If they haven't, it's probably time to look elsewhere. They are unlikely to survive."

What was the first multi-font computer-printer?

What do you mean by “font”? For that matter, what do you mean by “printer”?

Domesticated corvids: how useful / how smart?

Side question: Are cats really all that domesticated?

Links from around the web

How fast the days are getting longer

The days are getting longer...but by how much and how fast?

GIMP 3.0 released

After over seven years of hard work, the open-source image editor has a new version.

AI's effects on programming jobs

This is a solid, nuanced take. Spoiler alert: your job is safe!

Introducing `command` and `commandfor`

There's some new attributes coming to HTML that'll empower your markup without JavaScript!

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