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Issue 307: New season, new agents

When fall turns to winter, it can often seem like everything around you is taking their own subtle shifts. And just like how the weather changes and the leaves start to fall, the world of technology is no different. On the blog, our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar writes about one of those shifts in technology—how success is measured in a post Gen-AI world. XX

And in a post Gen-AI world, the shift in technology seems to feel distinctly agentic. Guillaume De Saint Marc from Outshift by Cisco joined us on the pod to talk about the future of multi-agent frameworks and what kind of infrastructure needs to be built for it. Speaking of agent infrastructure, on Leaders of Code, our very own Ben Matthews sat down with Postman's Abhinav Asthana to talk APIs in the AI era. Plus, this week, we're introducing our own agent—AI Assist, a new way to access the 17 years of expert knowledge living on Stack Overflow. XX

Even as the seasons change, some things remain true—traditional RSS feeds are boring, people love free movies, and code is only as good as the humans who are working on it. We have all three of those stories around the web for you this week, plus one on why finance bros should now fear AI taking their jobs like the rest of us. Oh, and another truth that remains true: robots are pretty cool. We were joined by Viam's VP of Engineering, Simone Kalmakis, to explore how abstraction is making those very cool robots attainable for the everyday person. XX

As the leaves fall and a chill starts to bite your nose, you're probably asking yourself a lot of questions right now like...what model computer appeared in both Star Trek and Serenity? Or maybe the winter air is making you wonder if the word "goodly" is real. Maybe you're even thinking about quitting your job, even if its only been a month. Well, you won't believe the coincidence—we've got all of those answers for you for you this week. Check them out, and everything else, in the links below.

From the blog

Treating your agents like microservices

Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable architectures.

Postman’s journey and unlocking the power of APIs

Lessons learned building a global API platform, navigating hyper-growth, and API-powered AI agents.

Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer

The way that developers interact with knowledge has changed in the age of AI. That's why we created AI Assist—a new way for users to access our 17 years of expert knowledge, and how Stack Overflow is remaining the always-open-tab of programmers around the world.

Disrupting yourself in the age of AI

The internet is facing a fundamental shift—and the way we measure success online is shifting too. Reach, trust, attribution, and influence are the new metrics to measure against in the post GenAI era.

Abstraction, but for robots

Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance of abstraction layers in making robotics more accessible, and the real-world applications of robotics from lobster traps to industrial sanding robots.

AI that knows your codebase, starts with Jira

Automate busywork with the new AI-powered Jira. Prioritize issues, surface code insights, and review changes right from the CLI or IDE so you can move faster with fewer interruptions. Now that’s a team changer. Check out the new AI-powered Jira.

Interesting questions

Do you die sooner if you retire later?

Making a statistical distribution chart and posting it online does not make it true.

If "bad" can be "badly" in adverbial form, then why not "good" to goodly"?

The goodly, the badly, and the uglyly.

I'm thinking of quitting my job after a month. How would I explain this to future employers?

Listen to your heart! And then keep it off your resume.

Front panel that appeared in both “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982) and “Serenity” (2005)

A computer so good, Spock is still using it in the 25th century.

Links from around the web

Most technical problems are really people problems

Code is like a mirror into the soul.

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

Is this a recession indicator?

Making RSS more fun

Making your RSS feed more like TikTok will in fact save you from falling into a brainrot spiral.

WikiFlix on Wikimedia Commons

Did they jailbreak Wikimedia?

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