[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"sanity-FYxUQUKlRQnmErCYOVXs6h33_VgsKNbd4Eg10cEnUtc":3},{"data":4,"sourceMap":-1},{"_createdAt":5,"_id":6,"_rev":7,"_type":8,"_updatedAt":9,"blog":10,"body":29,"issue":57,"links":58,"previewText":115,"publishedAt":116,"questions":117,"sign_off":174,"slug":195,"title":198},"2025-08-11T16:30:26Z","1b7051da-fc3d-4e6b-b56c-9044cdaf006e","xarCmHMlvnwrH7ycq1ohS5","newsletterOverflow","2025-08-18T03:57:08Z",[11,17,21,25],{"_type":12,"description":13,"link":14,"promotion":15,"title":16},"newsletterOverflowStory","Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. 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","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2025\u002F08\u002F04\u002Fcross-pollination-as-a-strategic-advantage-for-forward-thinking-organizations\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Cross-pollination as a strategic advantage for forward-thinking organizations",[30,41,49],{"_key":31,"_type":32,"children":33,"markDefs":39,"style":40},"73252e94b855","block",[34],{"_key":35,"_type":36,"marks":37,"text":38},"14aa82771d0b","span",[],"Let's address the elephant in the room: yes, vibe coding is happening, and there's not much we can do to stop it. Wherever you land on the optimist-pessimist spectrum for AI-generated code, we've got stories for you. Optimist Quinn Slack from Sourcegraph joined the pod to talk AI coding in enterprise environments and how he imagines these tools are going to change the software engineering lifecycle. If you're looking for the downer side of the spectrum, read about the misadventures of the worst coder on our team, who tried to build something purely off vibes, only for it to be a mess of security issues. Don't worry, no data was hurt in the making of her app. XX",[],"normal",{"_key":42,"_type":32,"children":43,"markDefs":48,"style":40},"91548c0eab68",[44],{"_key":45,"_type":36,"marks":46,"text":47},"271096993a3f",[],"If you're yearning for the early days of computers, when vibe coding was just a sci-fi dream, check out our pod with early adopter of Python and developer advocate Paul Everitt, who dives into the history of Python and what makes its community special. Then, go even further back in time and read a story from the web on the (surprisingly spicy) history of teletext around the world. If that cures your nostalgia, you can come back to the present and figure out with the rest of us how to fight AI slop...with more AI slop, probably. 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