From the blog
CEO Update: Exploration and experimentation for bold evolution
As we envision what the ideal future version of Stack Overflow looks like, we’re committed to engaging with our community.
Durable execution: autosave for your microservices
Ryan is joined by Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, and Qian Li, co-founder of DBOS, to discuss durable execution and its use cases, its implementation using technologies like PostgreSQL, and its applications in machine learning pipelines and AI systems for reliability, debugging, and observability.
Research roadmap update, May 2025
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS
Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce. Christophe explains how they solicited and incorporated feedback from the developer community in building the developer edition, what types of AI agents people are building, and the critical importance of guardrails and prompt engineering.
Calling all code enthusiasts!
A new challenge is live on Stack Overflow. This is your chance to apply your knowledge, explore programming paradigms, and engage in insightful discussions about solutions.
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Interesting questions
An idea for encryption using decimal part of nx for a secret irrational x
Sometimes you learn more by being wrong.
What would you call someone who is constantly thinking of all scenarios/possibilities/outcomes?
Anxious and exhausted.
Is there a critical number density of snowflakes after which snow becomes white?
To make snow white, you need seven, right?
Why turn on the oven at the start of a recipe?
Would you rather do it wrist deep in flour?
Links from around the web
Five boring things that have a bigger impact than “AI” coding assistants on dev team productivity
It may not be all sparkly, but the boring stuff gets things done.
Zuckerberg says in response to loneliness epidemic, he will create most of your friends using artificial intelligence
Do...do these guys not understand friendship?
Manual work is a bug
Way back in 2018, Stack Overflow's own Tom Limoncelli was advocating for greater automation in workflows.
Emerging developer patterns for the AI era
How software gets built is changing as AI agents write more code.