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Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools
This episode provides insights and strategies to successfully navigate AI adoption in engineering teams. Learn how to build developer confidence and create environments that drive real results beyond the hype.
Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse
Maintaining a minimum of 80% code coverage affects code decisions and not always for the better.
Turning investments into impact: Stack Overflow for Teams 2025.7
Over the past few releases, we’ve been investing in the foundation of Stack Overflow for Teams—strengthening infrastructure, modernizing integrations, and preparing for bigger shifts to come.
As your AI gets smarter, so must your API
Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new standard for agents, the importance of observability and security in AI systems, and the importance for businesses and entrepreneurs to leverage opportunities in the agentic AI space now.
One is not the loneliest number for API calls
Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities of and need for data normalization, and the role that AI and MCP plays in the future of API functionality.
The Intersection of Analytics, Strategy, and Career Growth
Gain in-demand data skills with Cornell’s STEM-designated MSBA program. This accelerated master’s teaches you to turn data into actionable business insights that drive results across industries.
Interesting questions
If ownership of an item is disputed, on whom does the burden of proof lie?
Apparently, "I called dibs" is a decently good argument when there's no paper-trail.
Conflicted over pursuing a PhD but taking a significant pay cut
Figuring out if you should get a PhD is so hard, you'd need a PhD to do it.
What terms originating in space exploration have been absorbed into non-technical English usage?
Mission control, I think we have some improper usage of space terms.
Is it okay to share an idea if I haven’t proven it?
Wish people on Twitter thought of this question before they posted.
Links from around the web
IP over lasers
Cats would love it if we used lasers instead of the WiFi from now on.
We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU
If only they could do this to the 80% of our brain power we're not using.
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
This router is the reason UPS keeps texting you that your packages aren't delivered.
I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!
If we can just figure out how to integrate Roblox into this, we can solve the AI chip problem.
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