Issue 319: Dogfooding your SDLC

Sometimes, the world of tech can feel a bit like a sci-fi movie—building AI tools with AI tools, AI self-help books, museums of old technology and webpages showcased for our viewing pleasure. If our SciFi Stack Exchange community is to be believed (and I want to believe), a movie about our current life would be considered Speculative Fiction which…yeah, that sounds right.

What’s not so speculative is that this Overflow is chock-full of interesting stories and answers for you from around the web. On our pod, we’re joined by Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead on Codex, to talk about dogfooding the future of agentic SDLC. Microsoft’s Marcus Fontoura sat down with us to discuss his new book, Human Agency in the Digital World, an “AI-era self-help book” about giving humans back the control in the tech revolution. Plus, we’ve got a new, redesigned Stack Overflow for your viewing pleasure, and a deep dive on our how we’re giving content creators back their agency with our partnership with Cloudflare.

But not everything in the future needs to be new school…sometimes old school still reigns supreme. At least that’s the case with our Q&A with pompelmi, the open-source project fighting one of the oldest kind of attack vectors, file uploads. That’s why we’re making sure you get plenty of the vintage in this week’s not-so-speculative newsletter—like the world’s first webpage and a museum filled with every kind of plug and socket in the world. And in a world of the speculative, one thing is proven: Stack sites are where you go for answers for every question you have, new or old. Why are Olympic athletes so much faster than normal humans going both forward AND backwards? Why doesn’t anything rhyme with orange? How far in the future can a commit message go? No speculation needed. We have all of that and more in the links below.