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It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us
Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specifications to accommodate the rapid…
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The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated
I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.
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A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer
The AI governance argument is happening one layer above the code that actually stops your agent.
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Delivering controlled and concentrated context
Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
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Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java
Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and…
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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 apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision in the era of AI, and the critical importance of…
- The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves
- Is AI really reshaping the developer market?
- Building Immersive Virtual Economies: An Introduction to KursarScript (KSPL)
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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 labs. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the trap they’re concerned about is the layer on top of the model.
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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 strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the advantages of localized computer access in their successful…
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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 each layer.
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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 before writing code, how Quint brings developer-friendly syntax and executability to formal methods, and the ways trace validation…
- MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.
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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-time job. Building an in-house AI context layer costs more money and energy than you think.
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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.
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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.
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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-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as developers' most loved language by providing…
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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.
- A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages