Stack Overflow Blog
Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.
Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated
Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS ...
Posted on 23 October 2026 | 7:40 am
The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 7:37 pm
Building Immersive Virtual Economies: An Introduction to KursarScript (KSPL)
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 4:26 pm
Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put
Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier l...
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 2:00 pm
Don't forget about the UI for AI
Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's stra...
Posted on 20 October 2026 | 7:40 am
Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on ...
Posted on 19 October 2026 | 3:32 pm
AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong
Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws...
Posted on 16 October 2026 | 7:40 am
MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 8:39 pm
Why your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could)
Most engineering teams capable of building an internal AI knowledge system think they should. But six months later, it's a platform team's full-tim...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 5:00 pm
Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Cory Hymel of Andela
While the whispers say that everyone is becoming a generalist, that's not where headcount is going.
Posted on 14 October 2026 | 5:12 pm
Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 4:35 pm
Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-ti...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 7:40 am
Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 2:00 pm
Taking a look under your agent’s hood
Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the b...
Posted on 9 October 2026 | 7:40 am
Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the...
Posted on 8 October 2026 | 8:08 pm
A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
Agents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape. It's that the fee...
Posted on 8 October 2026 | 2:00 pm
Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:48 pm
Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:40 pm
Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:31 pm
Part 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined build
Coding agents are great for an afternoon and mediocre for a quarter. Here’s the small set of files and rules — with the actual configs — that keeps...
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:09 pm
Implementing a Modular Master-Agent Telemetry & Diagnostic Framework in Python: Prime-Sentinel Command (PSC)
Posted on 7 October 2026 | 8:03 pm
“Impossible to Hide Secret …”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-Native IDEs
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 8:04 pm
Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results
Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelmin...
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 5:00 pm
The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and ...
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 2:00 pm
Constraints that make developers faster
Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of type...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 7:40 am
A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
This analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographic...
Posted on 1 October 2026 | 2:47 pm
Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.
AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those s...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 5:00 pm
Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal
Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their know...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 4:00 pm
Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 2:00 pm
Your phone is AI’s newest hardware
Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chi...
Posted on 29 September 2026 | 7:40 am
Why model versioning is not enough for production AI
An MLOps workflow for evaluating deploying and rolling back AI applications
Posted on 28 September 2026 | 6:24 pm
Is Your “Human-in-the-Loop” Actually Slowing You Down? Here’s What We Learned
Posted on 28 September 2026 | 4:41 pm
Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill
Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 7:40 am
Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 4:40 am
Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm
Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 7:40 am
The AI magic words
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user ...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 7:40 am
From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few o...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 5:00 pm
AI, JD, and other letters of the law
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas Schoo...
Posted on 15 September 2026 | 7:40 am