[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"sanity-88gIlo6vIYwYO1zzZTSKlSpcGAbPr_NY4CsFhaOk8T0":3},{"data":4,"sourceMap":-1},{"_createdAt":5,"_id":6,"_rev":7,"_system":8,"_type":11,"_updatedAt":12,"blog":13,"body":52,"issue":76,"links":77,"previewText":134,"publishedAt":135,"questions":136,"sign_off":193,"slug":214,"title":217},"2026-10-30T18:50:19Z","504c7b3e-760b-495f-b1d8-a82de91a5606","jFfxvQWgJh4dZFyYtkBHKp",{"base":9},{"id":6,"rev":10},"9wdkaIsUUY3fiMC7bBvQjd","newsletterOverflow","2026-11-05T16:45:40Z",[14,20,24,28,32,36],{"_type":15,"description":16,"link":17,"promotion":18,"title":19},"newsletterOverflowStory","Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specifications to accommodate the rapid influx of AI-generated code, and navigating the complex ethical boundaries between system observability and human surveillance in modern technology ecosystems.","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F30\u002Fit-s-ok-that-computers-are-sometimes-better-than-us\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter",null,"It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us",{"_type":15,"description":21,"link":22,"promotion":18,"title":23},"I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F29\u002Fthe-reports-of-stack-overflow-s-death-are-greatly-exaggerated\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated",{"_type":15,"description":25,"link":26,"promotion":18,"title":27},"The AI governance argument is happening one layer above the code that actually stops your agent.","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F28\u002Fa-json-schema-is-not-an-ai-governance-layer\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer",{"_type":15,"description":29,"link":30,"promotion":18,"title":31},"Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting stackinternal.com. ","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F28\u002Fdelivering-controlled-and-concentrated-context\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Delivering controlled and concentrated context",{"_type":15,"description":33,"link":34,"promotion":18,"title":35},"Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F27\u002Felevators-toasters-and-the-birth-of-java\u002F?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java",{"_type":15,"description":37,"link":49,"promotion":50,"title":51},[38],{"_key":39,"_type":40,"children":41,"markDefs":47,"style":48},"49f62bb3a614","block",[42],{"_key":43,"_type":44,"marks":45,"text":46},"163e6d0f7ef5","span",[],"At Raytheon, bring your ingenuity to the challenges behind mission-ready capabilities. Turn your technical expertise into technologies that help protect people and create a safer, more connected world.",[],"normal","https:\u002F\u002Fcareers.rtx.com\u002Fraytheon?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=stackoverflow&utm_campaign=rtx-talent-acquisition&utm_content=newsletter-ad",true,"Your Expertise. Extraordinary Possibilities.",[53,61,68],{"_key":54,"_type":40,"children":55,"markDefs":60,"style":48},"2ff4734ca1f4",[56],{"_key":57,"_type":44,"marks":58,"text":59},"914de5a37f85",[],"We’ve reached an interesting inflection point in tech where we might just have to admit that computers are (sometimes) better than us—at least when it comes to generating sheer volumes of code. Luckily, there’s one thing humans are still really good at: evolving to meet new challenges. This issue, we’re thinking about that human resilience, and how we can shift the paradigm to still come out on top against the bots. ",[],{"_key":62,"_type":40,"children":63,"markDefs":67,"style":48},"10ea5c18c683",[64],{"_key":57,"_type":44,"marks":65,"text":66},[],"On the podcast, we sit down with Honeycomb co-founder Charity Majors to discuss treating code like cattle instead of pets and navigating the increasingly blurry line between system observability and outright human surveillance. Speaking of tech evolution, we've also got a sit-down with Java creator James Gosling to discuss how the stringent reliability requirements of 90s consumer electronics—think elevators and toasters—birthed one of the most ubiquitous programming languages in history. Plus, we’re tackling the exaggerated rumors of Stack Overflow’s demise, explaining why a JSON schema isn't actually an AI governance layer, and rolling out new context-delivery features in Stack Internal to keep your team aligned.",[],{"_key":69,"_type":40,"children":70,"markDefs":75,"style":48},"ec5ba349c06a",[71],{"_key":72,"_type":44,"marks":73,"text":74},"df7844f32823",[],"Plus this week, we’ve got stories from all over the web on everything from keeping the open web open to unleashing AI agent swarms into Minecraft for \"research\" to figuring out if we really are more than the sum of all our parts. Want to get a leg up on the AI bots? Start with building a bit of knowledge by heading down to the links below.",[],354,[78,92,106,120],{"_key":79,"_ref":80,"_type":15,"description":81,"link":90,"promotion":18,"title":91},"d37e97d4a07b76f17a1afbe132789ffd","355a50a4-42e1-42be-9df0-fd6a1971687a",[82],{"_key":83,"_type":40,"children":84,"markDefs":89,"style":48},"b2024e791cf7",[85],{"_key":86,"_type":44,"marks":87,"text":88},"531a078cc10c",[],"Or the more terrifying option: never-skilling.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fnewsletter.signoz.io\u002Fp\u002Fai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling","AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them",{"_key":93,"_ref":94,"_type":15,"description":95,"link":104,"promotion":18,"title":105},"08572b8b69636cc7a306d9f677f171d9","c7a087ae-a0bc-4d96-bf16-f54e139c0831",[96],{"_key":97,"_type":40,"children":98,"markDefs":103,"style":48},"44b9c3c2e460",[99],{"_key":100,"_type":44,"marks":101,"text":102},"7c3afce56c1f",[],"Finally, a way to look at the stars without the terrifying requirement of having to go outside.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fda-luce\u002Fastroterm","Astroterm: A planetarium for your terminal",{"_key":107,"_ref":108,"_type":15,"description":109,"link":118,"promotion":18,"title":119},"a0e766cccc8c6afbf0ab239e725468cf","3b3b0fc7-d846-4801-b487-2fb7be382894",[110],{"_key":111,"_type":40,"children":112,"markDefs":117,"style":48},"cdfd10d3f062",[113],{"_key":114,"_type":44,"marks":115,"text":116},"8def9d5de2a3",[],"It’s kind of like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. ",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techpolicy.press\u002Fbreaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots\u002F","Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots",{"_key":121,"_ref":122,"_type":15,"description":123,"link":132,"promotion":18,"title":133},"6ceb748d86ae398d93c2c987bfeb87b8","67896bb1-0764-41c8-bec4-ae8594e49d35",[124],{"_key":125,"_type":40,"children":126,"markDefs":131,"style":48},"b2c21ff1f69f",[127],{"_key":128,"_type":44,"marks":129,"text":130},"7d3bdced2af6",[],"It’s not procrastinating if you’re playing Minecraft for research purposes.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Flabs.ycombinator.com\u002Fprojects\u002Fgames\u002Findex.html","We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry","SRE deskilling, emergence, and the history of Java","2026-11-05",[137,151,165,179],{"_key":138,"_ref":139,"_type":15,"description":140,"link":149,"promotion":18,"title":150},"47d2d1b7e1823db3060020c1e9d194ba","69b20950-c604-4aed-bed8-f2bed826381e",[141],{"_key":142,"_type":40,"children":143,"markDefs":148,"style":48},"a5d001098b5e",[144],{"_key":145,"_type":44,"marks":146,"text":147},"34c447761579",[],"But he didn’t know it was going to be a hit!",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fmovies.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F133518\u002Fwould-fredo-have-been-executed-if-he-left-cuba-with-michael?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Would Fredo have been executed if he left Cuba with Michael?",{"_key":152,"_ref":153,"_type":15,"description":154,"link":163,"promotion":18,"title":164},"a7ceb41cb4756878d4dbc0821e329851","b66bd529-789d-4b5b-8d70-24acf212351f",[155],{"_key":156,"_type":40,"children":157,"markDefs":162,"style":48},"6e09a37c9a34",[158],{"_key":159,"_type":44,"marks":160,"text":161},"e986f70369a5",[],"One is a meticulously preserved historical collection, and the other is a graveyard of PRs.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fenglish.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F641789\u002Farchive-vs-repository?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Archive vs repository",{"_key":166,"_ref":167,"_type":15,"description":168,"link":177,"promotion":18,"title":178},"0620642680a356dab1a866e16891bcc9","bb3f9ecb-6c88-463f-a37d-de1f019620f2",[169],{"_key":170,"_type":40,"children":171,"markDefs":176,"style":48},"df9f9627cc5e",[172],{"_key":173,"_type":44,"marks":174,"text":175},"7cafef1d7c72",[],"This question is larger than the sum of its parts.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fphilosophy.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F142934\u002Fis-emergence-as-a-phenomenon-just-something-we-project-onto-reality?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Is emergence as a phenomenon just something we project onto reality?",{"_key":180,"_ref":181,"_type":15,"description":182,"link":191,"promotion":18,"title":192},"bd54f91df952162595b1f5e42eb78ede","c8dedbfd-170c-4ee6-afe1-27993c35245a",[183],{"_key":184,"_type":40,"children":185,"markDefs":190,"style":48},"549330fcec85",[186],{"_key":187,"_type":44,"marks":188,"text":189},"462669ba66af",[],"Just tell your project manager that your code isn't broken, it's just from the future.",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.com\u002Fquestions\u002F80013344\u002Fwhy-does-my-program-work-in-c23-and-not-in-c11?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-overflow-newsletter","Why does my program work in C23 and not in C11?",[194],{"_key":195,"_type":40,"children":196,"markDefs":210,"style":48},"fd30c67ddd1b",[197,201,206],{"_key":198,"_type":44,"marks":199,"text":200},"4a686331acda",[],"Are you using AI agents to get work done? We want to talk to you! ",{"_key":202,"_type":44,"marks":203,"text":205},"f795742c9e93",[204],"3ca0841c2eef","We’re recruiting for paid research interviews",{"_key":207,"_type":44,"marks":208,"text":209},"bb755cd2afa5",[]," to learn more about agentic workflows in everything from engineering to product to marketing. ",[211],{"_key":204,"_type":212,"href":213},"link","https:\u002F\u002Fresearch.rallyuxr.com\u002Frecruit\u002Fclckudjjp000y8717i9fsm843\u002Fform\u002Fcmvq6do1j00gcdfle1lob8c70?channel=share&ref=the_overflow",{"_type":215,"current":216},"slug","issue-354-sometimes-ai-is-just-better-than-us","Issue 354: Sometimes, AI is just better than us"]