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Issue 347: Your developer story

We want to hear your story, developers! We’re excited to announce the (re)launch of Developer Story, the place for you to show your growth and display your skills beyond your resume. To give you a little inspiration, we’ve got plenty of stories this week on security, technology, and beyond.

We sit down with Zscaler's Sam Curry to discuss why AI-driven cybersecurity is a perpetual cat and mouse game—and why building resilient code infrastructure is our best defense against automated probing. We also chat with PayPal’s Srini Venkatesan about scaling your money safely with AI, validating deterministic code, and building autonomous SDLC harnesses.

Beyond the blog, we’re debating whether companies are "quietly nudging" employees out the door, calculating the fastest way to cool a boiling pot of water, and questioning if we should actually trust LLM judges when they happen to agree. Happy Wednesday—we’ve got all of those stories and so much more ready for you down below.

From the blog

AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game

Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and why building more resilient code infrastructure is the best way to address the vulnerabilities AI does discover.

(Re)introducing Developer Story

For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.

Java’s age is its AI superpower

Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.

Scaling your money safely with AI

Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience.

Interesting questions

Would a company nudge employees to leave?

You’ve heard of “quiet quitting,” now get ready for “quiet reduction in workforce.”

What is the fastest way to cool a pot of boiling water using ice and water?

Ice ice, baby!

What are the actual risks of putting work-in-progress mathematics into AI assistants?

Besides the frivolously added em dashes?

Can the US president rename a US state?

There would be a lot of Constitutional amendments involved.

Links from around the web

How to write an effective software design document

Gotta love a design doc about writing design docs.

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

Three is not the magic number in quantum physics.

A beginning for mathematics

“It’s now possible to produce a PhD thesis one hasn’t even read.”

When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?

The LLM jury is still out on this one.