The Stack Overflow podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming. Hosted by Paul Ford and Ben Popper, the series features questions from our community, interviews with fascinating guests, and hot takes on what’s happening in tech. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. It’s best known for being the largest, most trusted online community for developers and technologists. More than 100 million people come to Stack Overflow every month to ask questions, help solve coding problems, and develop new skills.
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The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn.Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code.Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams.Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by explaining How to access the appsettings in Blazor WebAssembly.
How API security is evolving for the GenAI era
Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. Follow Solo.io on X or LinkedIn or dig into the docs.Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog.Connect with Keith on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind: their helpful answer to the question – How to run jq from gitbash in windows? – has been viewed by more than 213,000 people and won a Populist badge.
The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers
Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X.Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn.To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website. Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity?
What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability
Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog.We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. Connect with Austin on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List?, a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people.
Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations
Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle control. They’re hiring!Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn.Stack Overflow user user3330840 won a Lifeboat badge for their answer to My commits appear as another user in GitHub?.
Think you don’t need observability? Think again
Memento is a real-time data platform designed to help developers ship better products faster. Explore the platform here or get started in the docs. Connect with Daniela on LinkedIn and follow Momento on X.Stack Overflow user Simon Juhl won a Lifeboat badge for dropping some knowledge on HTMLCSS change Date input highlight color.
Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering
You can find Crystal on LinkedIn.You can learn more about FSH Tech here.Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for answering the question: How do I create a map with key and value in one line in Java?
A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
You can find David on LinkedIn.You can learn more about Arcjet here.You can subscribe to to the console.dev newsletter and podcast here.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill who earned a Populist badge for his answer to the question: What’s a good tool to determine the lowest version of Python required? Greg is getting close to the magic one million rep mark!
This dev went from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing in AI with Anthropic
You can find Deedy on Twitter and LinkedIn.You can learn more about the Anthology Fund here.You can learn more about Menlo Ventures here.Congrats to Stack Overflow users Bobince for earning a Populist badge with their answer to the question: What does sorting mean in non-alphabetic languages?
He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.
Jyoti is a cofounder and CEO of Harness, a software delivery platform meant to modernize your DevOps tooling and take the friction out of CI/CD. Devs can get started with the developer portal. In addition to Harness, Jyoti is a cofounder and entrepreneur partner at Unusual Ventures, which specializes in working with early-stage startups (pre-seed to Series A).Connect with Jyoti on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user kukuh, who won a Lifeboat badge for dishing out some wisdom on Android productFlavors in gradle-kotlin-dsl.
How to detect errors in AI-generated code
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Looking under the hood of multimodal AI
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here.Created by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open-source project for enhancing LLMs. Learn more here or join the community on GitHub.Connect with Scott on LinkedIn. User AffluentOwl earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to force JavaScript to deep copy a string?.
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From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and community, Mrina has seen the world of coding from many angles. You can follow her on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here.You can learn more about CK editor here and TinyMCE here.Congrats to Stack Overflow user NYI for earning a great question badge by asking: How do I convert a bare git repository into a normal one (in-place)?
The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
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