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Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.
Java’s age is its AI superpower
Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 4:45 am
Scaling your money safely with AI
Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesse...
Posted on 8 September 2026 | 7:40 am
How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 7:40 am
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platfor...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 4:00 pm
The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and in...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 7:40 am
The good ol’ days of building Java
Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 7:40 am
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agent...
Posted on 28 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization
Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedI...
Posted on 25 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design
Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.
Posted on 24 August 2026 | 2:00 pm
Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:00 pm
Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots
Ryan chats with Brian Alvey, CTO at WordPress VIP, about how AI agents are changing the business models of the web, what parts of how we build our ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 7:40 am
AI Won't Replace Project Managers, But It is Reshaping How Work Gets Done
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 7:05 pm
Quantum-Augmented Applications: Integrating Quantum Subroutines into Classical Software Stacks
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 6:43 pm
From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google and co-creator of PHP, joins Leaders of Code to talk about why agentic development feels less li...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset
Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines u...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 7:40 am
No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know about AI ...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 6:00 pm
Solving integration woes with a hackathon
Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe ...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing
Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release spee...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 7:40 am
How to be fearlessly AI native
Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic ...
Posted on 7 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer
The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team.
Posted on 5 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster
Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infras...
Posted on 4 August 2026 | 7:40 am
Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth
Your semantic layer is a risk mitigation strategy. Not risk in the abstract, compliance-framework sense, but the practical, operational risk that q...
Posted on 31 July 2026 | 2:08 pm
What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?
Ryan welcomes WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar to the show to chat about what happens—and what we should do—when agents start acting like humans onli...
Posted on 31 July 2026 | 7:40 am
Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience
Introducing new Stack Internal capabilities as part of our upcoming platform experience. Our latest release turns your existing foundation of knowl...
Posted on 30 July 2026 | 3:10 pm
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have t...
Posted on 29 July 2026 | 2:06 pm
You need reliable AI context for your site reliability
Ryan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-ser...
Posted on 28 July 2026 | 7:40 am
No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do...
Posted on 24 July 2026 | 4:00 pm
Partnerships can keep open source sustainable
Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it ...
Posted on 24 July 2026 | 7:40 am
The future of development is full-stack
Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe co...
Posted on 21 July 2026 | 7:40 am
Developers who move fast still need to do it together
At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss...
Posted on 17 July 2026 | 7:40 am
Your AI is only as responsible as you are
Recorded at Microsoft Build, Ryan welcomes Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, about how we can build and use AI resp...
Posted on 14 July 2026 | 7:40 am
Building more than just an agent harness
Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, a...
Posted on 10 July 2026 | 7:40 am
What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in?
Ryan is joined by Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at IBM, to explore what infrastructure-as-code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it.
Posted on 8 July 2026 | 4:40 am
Agent orchestration is so two years ago
Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon...
Posted on 7 July 2026 | 7:40 am
When the sensor starts thinking: SnortML, agentic AI, and the evolving architecture of intrusion detection
Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shif...
Posted on 6 July 2026 | 3:23 pm
The good, the bad, and the AI apps
Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qual...
Posted on 3 July 2026 | 7:40 am
How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook?
Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, joins Leaders of Code at Snowflake Summit to break down the five-stage framework his org used t...
Posted on 2 July 2026 | 7:40 am
Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM
Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction, though great for language, isn’t the right inductive bias ...
Posted on 30 June 2026 | 7:40 am
Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
If you want your values to spread throughout the industry, the best thing you can possibly do is succeed and make others want to imitate you.
Posted on 26 June 2026 | 2:00 pm
Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures
Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it...
Posted on 25 June 2026 | 7:40 am