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Stack Overflow Blog

Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.

The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs

Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought, which explores the history of the philosophy, mathematics, and logic that underlie artificial intelligence, and scientists' efforts to describe our minds using mathematics.

2026/2/10
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Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs

Not only is there a future for software development, but we’re on the cusp of enormous demand for code developed by humans.

2026/2/10
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AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal

We have another two-for-one special this week, with two more interviews from the floor of re:Invent.

2026/2/6
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Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory

Quality software still needs high-quality code, AI agents or not.

2026/2/4
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Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs)

Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December.

2026/2/3
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What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

2026/2/2
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Wanna see a CSS magic trick?

Ryan is joined by Chris Coyier, founder of CSS Tricks and CodePen, to talk all about what the state of the art of CSS is today, including new features like variables and scroll-driven animations.

2026/1/30
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Scaling enterprise AI: lessons in governance and operating models from IBM

Successful implementation and scaling of enterprise AI projects is fundamentally a people and operating model challenge, not just a technology problem.

2026/1/30
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Are you learning with AI? We want to know about it!

We're running a survey to understand how people are using AI to learn and whether that's helping, hurting, and replacing tools.

2026/1/29
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Are bugs and incidents inevitable with AI coding agents?

What specific kind of bugs is AI more likely to generate? Do some categories of bugs show up more often? How severe are they? How is this impacting production environments?

2026/1/28
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Spy vs spy at scale

Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in intelligence in places like translation and image analysis, the challenges of evolving modern tech into government infrastructure, and the importance of democratized intelligence so citizens can keep themselves and loved ones safe.

2026/1/27
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Stack Gives Back 2025!

We’re excited to announce our 17th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations.

2026/1/26
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AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt

Ryan sits down with Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech to discuss the newest kind of tech debt—AI-generated tech debt. They dive into the uneven productivity results of AI tools, how tech teams are evolving their roles and work in response to these massive technological shifts, and what the nervous developer can do to maintain joy in their work.

2026/1/23
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Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce

Security controls can be a bit of a cat and mouse game—you block one attack, new ones spring up.

2026/1/22
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Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol

Learn how to protect MCP servers from unauthorized access and how authentication of MCP clients to MCP servers works.

2026/1/21
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Don’t let your backend write checks your frontend can’t cache

Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your frontend and your backend when using AI code.

2026/1/20
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How AWS re:Invented the cloud

From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonomous agents will ease developers' operational burdens.

2026/1/16
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How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors

If a new post looks very similar to content that has been recently removed for being spam, it's likely spam too.

2026/1/15
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Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential

Learn how IBM deployed and integrated AI tools in the ultimate enterprise environment.

2026/1/15
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If you're a Zoomer, this one's for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape

Here's the lowdown on all the tech from 2025 that you, dear Zoomer, should know about.

2026/1/15
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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI

What we learned from the first year of Leaders of Code.

2026/1/15
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Vibe code anything in a Hanselminute

Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding.

2026/1/13
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Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow

Registered users can now join public chat rooms from day one, making it easier to connect, learn, and participate in the community

2026/1/13
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Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick

Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future holds for personalized user experiences in ecommerce.

2026/1/9
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You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI

Pete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to say that looking at AI’s impact as a job killer is a flawed metric.

2026/1/7
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Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites.

2026/1/6
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What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026

For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong.

2026/1/5
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A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge

In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here's what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills.

2026/1/2
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The most dangerous shortcuts in software

Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity.

2026/1/2
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Documents: The architect’s programming language

Senior developers know how to deploy code to systems made of code. Architects know how to deploy ideas to systems made of people.

2026/1/2
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A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant

Evaluating question quality and determining the appropriate feedback required some classic ML techniques in addition to our GenAI solution.

2025/12/31
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A new era of Stack Overflow

Live from the stage of WeAreDevelopers, we’re unveiling our new vision and mission for the future of Stack Overflow and our community.

2025/12/30
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How AI is helping us build better communities

MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities.

2025/12/30
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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

No need to bury the lede: more developers are using AI tools, but their trust in those tools is falling.

2025/12/29
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AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers

For promising Gen Z students, a career as a software developer seemed like the golden ticket to career stability and success. But in the age of AI, the career promise for Gen Z software developers is gone.

2025/12/26
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Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not

Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems.

2025/12/26
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Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive?

Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?

2025/12/25
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The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter

So long and thanks for all the bits!

2025/12/24
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How Xerox and Stack Overflow partnered to preserve knowledge and power innovation

How Stack Internal provided the foundation for a culture of continuous learning and open collaboration.

2025/12/24
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The AI ick

How we feel about AI-generated content, what AI detectors tell us, and why human creativity matters. Also, what is art?

2025/12/24
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