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Stack Overflow Blog

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

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,...
Posted on 26 December 2025 | 2:39 pm

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 pl...
Posted on 26 December 2025 | 8:40 am

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?
Posted on 25 December 2025 | 2:42 pm

The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter

So long and thanks for all the bits!
Posted on 24 December 2025 | 2:03 pm

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.
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 5:00 pm

The AI ick

How we feel about AI-generated content, what AI detectors tell us, and why human creativity matters. Also, what is art?
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 4:41 pm

Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology

Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather ...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 8:40 am

Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse

Maintaining a minimum of 80% code coverage affects code decisions and not always for the better.
Posted on 22 December 2025 | 3:00 pm

Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn

Ryan sits down with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, at AWS re:Invent to get Corey’s patented snarky take on all the happenings from...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 8:40 am

The 2025 Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange wrap—our top ten questions of the year!

As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the top questions from across our entire Stack Exchange Network.
Posted on 17 December 2025 | 6:00 pm

Your 2025 Stacked: A year of knowledge, community, and impact

From tough questions to standout answers, your team built a lot in 2025. Your 2025 Stacked brings those contributions together in one shareable sna...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 2:00 pm

Live from re:Invent…it’s Stack Overflow!

Ryan is joined by Stack Overflow’s CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree on the floor at re:Invent to discuss all t...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 8:40 am

At AWS re:Invent, the news was agents, but the focus was developers

Four days, 60,000 developers, and AI-generated perfume. The re:Invent that was.
Posted on 15 December 2025 | 3:53 pm

How Stack Overflow’s MCP Server is helping HP modernize the software development lifecycle

HP's Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele shares how better knowledge access is allowing HP to experiment and modernize their software develo...
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 6:00 pm

Interface is everything, and everything is an interface

Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure generating UI on the fly w...
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 8:40 am

Simulating lousy conversations: Q&A with Silvio Savarese, Chief Scientist & Head of AI Research at Salesforce

AI yells at voice agents so you don't have to.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 3:00 pm

Tell us what you really, really… do not want to spend time working on

With the promise of AI productivity gains not always coming to fruition, we wondered where developers still get frustrated.
Posted on 10 December 2025 | 3:00 pm

AI is a crystal ball into your codebase

Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Macroscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 8:40 am

The shift in enterprise AI—what we learned on the floor at Microsoft Ignite

There's a distinct shift in how enterprises are talking about their AI solutions. Speed and flashiness are giving way to steadier, slower, more foc...
Posted on 8 December 2025 | 6:00 pm

Treating your agents like microservices

Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices...
Posted on 5 December 2025 | 8:40 am

Postman’s journey and unlocking the power of APIs

Lessons learned building a global API platform, navigating hyper-growth, and API-powered AI agents.
Posted on 4 December 2025 | 8:40 am

Disrupting yourself in the age of AI

The internet is facing a fundamental shift—and the way we measure success online is shifting too. Reach, trust, attribution, and influence are the ...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 6:00 pm

Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer

The way that developers interact with knowledge has changed in the age of AI. That's why we created AI Assist—a new way for users to access our 17 ...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 6:00 pm

Abstraction, but for robots

Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importan...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 8:40 am

What’s new at Stack Overflow: December 2025

Including a new MCP server, expanded access to a new question type, a long requested community ask to make copying code easier, and more!
Posted on 1 December 2025 | 3:18 pm

Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture

Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectri...
Posted on 28 November 2025 | 8:40 am

Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success

Here, we’ve distilled the survey findings, laid out action items for leadership, and dug into recommendations around agentic AI for the enterprise....
Posted on 25 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs

Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization...
Posted on 25 November 2025 | 8:40 am

Only you can stop AI database drops

Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architec...
Posted on 21 November 2025 | 8:40 am

Community Products roadmap update, November 2025

An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
Posted on 20 November 2025 | 4:00 pm

Introducing Stack Internal: Powering the human intelligence layer of enterprise AI

Today at Microsoft Ignite, we’re showcasing the next step in our evolution: Stack Overflow for Teams is now Stack Internal. It’s the next phase of ...
Posted on 18 November 2025 | 3:00 pm

How to create agents that people actually want to use

Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Si...
Posted on 18 November 2025 | 8:40 am

The fastest agent in the race has the best evals

Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a t...
Posted on 14 November 2025 | 8:40 am

One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community.

Discover how leveraging an intelligent, community-driven knowledge layer is the key to grounding probabilistic tools, preventing AI hallucination, ...
Posted on 13 November 2025 | 8:40 am

2025.8 release introduces Stack Overflow Internal: The next generation of enterprise knowledge intelligence

Today, we’re excited to introduce Stack Overflow Internal—the next evolution of our enterprise platform and the future of Stack Overflow for Teams.
Posted on 12 November 2025 | 3:00 pm

AI code means more critical thinking, not less

Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, the fut...
Posted on 11 November 2025 | 8:40 am

Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software

Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability in...
Posted on 7 November 2025 | 8:40 am

To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI

Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in en...
Posted on 4 November 2025 | 8:40 am

What’s new at Stack Overflow: November 2025

From a new kind of vote to a preview of the upcoming redesign, check out what’s been happening at Stack Overflow over the past month.
Posted on 3 November 2025 | 3:00 pm

Vibe coding needs a spec, too

Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world....
Posted on 31 October 2025 | 7:40 am