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Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run
6 januari 2026 · 23 min
Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Akamai is a CDN, full-stack cloud computing, and cybersecurity company that keeps experiences closer to users and threats further away using the world’s most distributed compute platform.
Connect with Robert on LinkedIn and check out his AI Pulse blogs.
Today’s shoutout goes to user Evan Phoenix for winning a Populist badge for their answer to llvm ir back to human-readable source language?.
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The most dangerous shortcuts in software
2 januari 2026 · 29 min
Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Lees meer
Episode notes:
LaunchDarkly is a feature management and experimentation platform that allows you to decouple software feature rollouts from code deployment so you can manage features safely and securely.
Connect with Tom on Linkedin.
This episode’s shoutout goes to user Boris Gorelik, who won a Great Question badge for asking Removing handlers from python's logging loggers.
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How AI is helping us build better communities
30 december 2025 · 34 min
MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities. Ryan and Sandy dive into the findings from Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, the ethical implications of rapidly advancing technology, and AI’s potential to foster community dialogue and decision-making. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI explores how we can build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology—rather than letting technology shape our society.
Connect with Sandy on Linkedin. Check out the work he’s doing with AI at deliberation.io and Loyal Agents.
Congratulations to user Harshal for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How to start search only when user stops typing?
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Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not
26 december 2025 · 32 min
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 play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking so you can run applications and manage data across on-premises datacenters, public clouds, and edge locations all on one platform.
Connect with Dan on Linkedin and Bluesky.
Congrats to Necromancer badge winner David Ferenczy Rogožan! They won the badge on their answer to Where does adb shell mkdir create directories.
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Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology
23 december 2025 · 38 min
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 the normal next step in computing’s evolution. They explore the importance of democratizing access to technology, the unique challenges that LLMs’ non-determinism poses, and how developers can keep Stack Overflow’s ethos of community alive in a world of AI. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Anil is a tech entrepreneur (former CEO at our sister company Fog Creek Software) and writer. You can find him at his blog anildash.com and on Linkedin.
Check out the last time Anil was on the pod in 2020 to talk all things Glitch and Glimmer.
Shoutout to user pgrad for winning a Lifejacket badge on their answer to Using type hint Any in Django - NameError: name 'Any' is not defined.
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Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn
19 december 2025 · 23 min
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 the conference. They discuss whether the AI agent hype is supported by actual buyers, how startups are faring as AWS focuses on large enterprises, and how many of the new technologies coming out this year will actually be transformative. Lees meer
Episode notes:
This episode was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025! Check out Ryan’s recap of events on our blog.
Duckbill provides financial planning and analysis for enterprise infrastructure to help you understand, negotiate, and optimize your cloud spend.
Connect with Corey on Linkedin and subscribe to his newsletter Last Week in AWS.
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Live from re:Invent…it’s Stack Overflow!
16 december 2025 · 32 min
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 they’ve seen and heard at the event, from the future of AI agents to the trust issues the enterprise has around AI and the impact of AI and robotics on the job market. Lees meer
Episode Notes:
This episode was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025! Check out Ryan’s recap of events from the floor on our blog.
Connect with Prashanth on LinkedIn.
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.
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Interface is everything, and everything is an interface
12 december 2025 · 24 min
Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure that UI generated on the fly would put on your backend systems, and why AI is just the latest and fanciest in a long line of CRUD apps. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Metalab designs interfaces for top brands around the world, helping them design, build, and ship their products.
Connect with Wesley on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Congrats to Populist badge winner SiddAjmera, who won the badge for their answer to Angular FormControl check if required.
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AI is a crystal ball into your codebase
9 december 2025 · 35 min
Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Microscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the need for humans-in-the-loop for reviewing PRs so AI tools can efficiently and effectively debug, and how AI can increase visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level and high signal-to-noise ratio code reviews. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Macroscope helps you understand your code through AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and real-time status reports
Connect with Kayvon on Twitter and LinkedIn.
This week’s shoutout goes to user Jesper Grann Laursen for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Exclude Table during pg_restore.
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Treating your agents like microservices
5 december 2025 · 36 min
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, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable architectures. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Outshift is Cisco’s tech incubator that pursues emerging technologies like agentic AI, quantum computing, and next-gen infrastructure. Learn more about multi-agent architecture at their open-source collective AGNTCY.
Connect with Guillaume on Linkedin.
Today we’re shouting out a Socratic badge winner, Avraam Mavridis, who won the badge for asking well received questions on 100 separate days.
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Abstraction, but for robots
2 december 2025 · 25 min
Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance of abstraction layers in making robotics more accessible, and the real-world applications of robotics from lobster traps to industrial sanding robots. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Viam is a robotics platform that brings modern software development tools into hardware applications.
Connect with Simone on Linkedin.
This week’s shoutout goes to Lifejacket winner Sergey Kalinichenko for their answer to How does this K&R code for reading an int work?.
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Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture
28 november 2025 · 22 min
Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity. They discuss how Rainstick mimics natural thunderstorms to create electric fields and frequencies that promote plant growth, challenges and breakthroughs in their research, and their participation in the AWS Compute for Climate Fellowship. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Rainstick uses electricity to mimic the natural effects of lightning to grow crops bigger, faster, and more sustainably.
Want to learn more about the Compute for Climate program? Check our podcast with Lisbeth Kaufman, Head of Climate Tech at AWS.
Ryan wrote about how software is being applied to agriculture a few years ago.
Connect with Darryl on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner WestCoastProjects for their answer to Test accuracy is greater than train accuracy what to do?.
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You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs
25 november 2025 · 26 min
Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Mithril’s omnicloud platform aggregates and orchestrates multi-cloud GPUs, CPUs, and storage so you can access your infrastructure through a single platform.
Connect with Jared on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Shoutout to user Razzi Abuissa for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How to find last merge in git?.
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Only you can stop AI database drops
21 november 2025 · 32 min
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 architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Retool is an enterprise AI AppGen platform for internal software development, allowing you to create apps, agents, and workflows with any LLM, datasource, or API.
David Hsu previously joined the podcast to complain about maintaining internal tools.
Connect with David on Twitter.
Today’s shoutout is for user Waseem Wisa, who won a Populist badge on their answer to Sass compiler throws 'undefined mixin' error when mixins are kept in seperate folder.
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How to create agents that people actually want to use
18 november 2025 · 27 min
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 Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency. Lees meer
Episode notes:
monday.com is a work management platform that allows you to plan and execute work across departments with a unified, AI-first product suite.
Connect with Assaf on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Congrats to Populist badge winner Vilx-, who received the badge for their answer to How do you provide a default type for generics?.
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The fastest agent in the race has the best evals
14 november 2025 · 33 min
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 ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-designed LPU, the first chip built for inference. Check out their agent, Compound, which can search the web and run code.
Connect with Benjamin on LinkedIn and X.
Congrats to user Bart Kiers for winning a Stellar Answer badge on their response to Regular expression to match a line that doesn't contain a word.
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One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community.
13 november 2025 · 24 min
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar chats with Ramprasad Rai, VP of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase & Co., about the unique challenges of implementing AI in an enterprise environment. They discuss how organizations can balance AI-driven productivity with strict compliance and security requirements by leveraging a community-driven knowledge system that grounds probabilistic AI tools in internal, trusted expertise. Lees meer
The discussion also:
Explores why AI models often hallucinate in enterprise environments due to a lack of internal context.
Highlights how Stack Overflow’s structured Q&A data provides ideal fine-tuning material for the next generation of AI models.
Notes
Connect with Ramprasad Rai on LinkedIn.
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AI code means more critical thinking, not less
11 november 2025 · 33 min
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 future of developer training as AI coding assistants become more popular, and the importance of critical thinking—especially for junior developers—in the age of AI. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Secure Code Warrior upskills development teams to help companies stay protected against potential cybersecurity threats.
Connect with Matias on Linkedin.
Shoutout to Lifejacket badge winner Sergey Kalinichenko, who won the badge for their answer to K&R Code for getting an int.
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Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software
7 november 2025 · 32 min
Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control. Lees meer
Episode notes:
New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run software. Read their 2025 observability forecast.
Connect with Nic on Linkedin or email him at nic@newrelic.com.
Congratulations to user Yochai Timmer for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Reader/Writer Locks in C++.
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To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI
4 november 2025 · 28 min
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 ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on code changes, fix CI failures, and improve your PRs right from your PR page.
Connect with Greg on LinkedIn and keep up with Graphite on their Twitter.
This week’s shoutout goes to user xerad, who won an Investor badge by dropping a bounty on the question How to specify x64 emulation flag (EC_CODE) for shared memory sections for ARM64 Windows?.
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Vibe coding needs a spec, too
31 oktober 2025 · 27 min
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. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Kiro is AWS’ AI IDE that brings structure to AI coding with spec-driven development.
Connect with Deepak on the Kiro Discord server and read more about spec-driven development on The New Stack.
We last spoke to Deepak Singh in March about how enterprise-ready agents are.
Congratulations to user Whymarrh for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Git commits are duplicated in the same branch after doing a rebase.
Learn more about the future of software engineering in the AI age on November 3rd, when our CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, speaks at a virtual OpenAI Forum.
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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents
28 oktober 2025 · 28 min
Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Linear is a tool for planning and building products that streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps.
Connect with Tom on Twitter.
This episode’s shoutout goes to user ozz, who won a Populist badge for their answer to Column width not working in DataTables bootstrap.
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Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents
24 oktober 2025 · 25 min
Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Resolve AI is building agents to help you troubleshoot alerts, manage incidents, and run your production systems.
Connect with Spiros on Linkedin or email him at spiros@resolve.ai.
Congrats to user larsks for winning a Stellar Answer badge for their answer to How do I get into a Docker container's shell?.
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What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
23 oktober 2025 · 31 min
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Product Suite at Stack Overflow, unpack the key takeaways from the 2025 Developer Survey for tech and business leaders. The discussion focuses on the evolving developer relationship with AI, the continued struggle with tool sprawl, and actionable recommendations for leaders looking to deliver value and improve developer experience. Lees meer
The discussion covers critical findings for tech leaders:
The decline in developer trust in AI is linked to two main frustrations: solutions that are "almost right, but not quite" and the time wasted debugging AI-generated code.
Human connection and community validation remain vital: 80% of developers still visit Stack Overflow regularly, and the number of "advanced questions" on the public platform has doubled since 2023, underscoring AI’s limitations when it comes to complex, context-dependent questions.
Tool sprawl continues, as most developers use 6–10 tools, suggesting that AI tends to complicate rather than simplify workflows.
Notes:
Explore key insights from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, consolidated into an executive-ready summary.
Connect with Natalie Rotnov on LinkedIn.
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Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems
21 oktober 2025 · 26 min
Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosystem healthy, the challenges OS communities have faced with the rise of AI, and the implications of data privacy and user choice in the age of multi-agent AI systems. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Mozilla.ai is building the agent platform that helps organizations safely automate real work with AI agents.
Connect with John on Linkedin or email him at john@mozilla.ai.
Congrats to Populist badge winner Philipp Merkle, who won it for their answer to How to set the -Xmx when start running a jar file?.
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Why rent a cloud when you can build one?
17 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Cozystack is a Kubernetes-based framework for building a private cloud environment.
Connect with Andrei on Linkedin.
Today’s shoutout goes to user Adam for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Regex replace text but exclude when text is between specific tag.
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AI agents for your digital chores
14 oktober 2025 · 35 min
Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people interact with advertisements and the web as a whole, and the challenges that proactive AI agents may face when being integrated into workflows and personal internet use. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Yutori is building AI agents that can reliably handle everyday digital tasks on your behalf on the web.
Connect with Dhruv via his website.
Congrats to the winner of today’s Populist badge, user Don Kirkby, who earned it with their answer to Find all references to an object in python.
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Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript
10 oktober 2025 · 27 min
Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Vite is a frontend build tool powering the next generation of web applications.
Check out all of the work Evan is doing at his company VoidZero.
For more on the origins of Vite, watch the newly-released Cult.repo’s documentary.
If you’d rather hear Evan talk about Vue.js, listen to the podcast we published with him earlier this summer.
Today’s shoutout goes to user dbush for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How does printing a union itself and not its member work in C?.
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Context is king for secure, AI-generated code
7 oktober 2025 · 28 min
Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Endor Labs is AppSec for the software development revolution, helping you pinpoint critical risks whether your code is written by a human or AI.
Connect with Dimitri on LinkedIn.
Today’s shoutout is for user skovorodkin, whose answer for Elegant Python code for Integer Partitioning was so good, it outscored the accepted answer.
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One is not the loneliest number for API calls
3 oktober 2025 · 26 min
Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities of and need for data normalization, and the role that AI and MCP plays in the future of API functionality. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Merge connects you to any third-party system for fast, secure integrations for your products and agents.
Connect with Gil on LinkedIn and X.
Shoutout to user Abhijit for winning a Lifeboat badge on their answer for Complex numbers in python.
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Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools
2 oktober 2025 · 20 min
In the second part of this two-part Leaders of Code episode, Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, and Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google Developer Experiences, dive beyond AI hype to explore the shifts reshaping how engineering teams operate and scale. From the critical role of documentation quality in AI workflows to the cultural transformations needed for successful adoption, Peter and Ryan discuss the deeper implications of integrating AI into modern software development practices. Lees meer
The discussion also:
Explores how poor documentation creates problems as AI systems learn and repeat mistakes, making high-quality documentation essential for successful AI integrations.
Covers how consistent tools and processes become more important when using AI, and why leaders should prioritize helping teams learn and experiment with AI tools instead of just measuring productivity.
Offers practical advice for leaders on how to create environments where developers can learn and build confidence with AI tools.
Notes:
Listen to Part 1 of the conversation here.
Connect with Peter O’Connor and Ryan J Salva.
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As your AI gets smarter, so must your API
30 september 2025 · 28 min
Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new standard for agents, the importance of observability and security in AI systems, and the importance for businesses and entrepreneurs to leverage opportunities in the agentic AI space now. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Kong is an all-in-one API platform for AI and agentic workflows.
Marco previously joined the podcast in 2024.
Connect with Marco on Twitter.
Congratulations to user Mark for receiving a Lifeboat badge for their answer to Visual Studio Code: Expand the horizontal bar for scrolling tabs.
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Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience
26 september 2025 · 27 min
Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impact of AI on dev experience, and how Spotify approaches platform engineering and standardization to help teams solve for specific needs. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Backstage is an open-source IDP by Spotify that reduces everyday friction, cognitive overhead, and operational toil for developers.
We previously talked to the Backstage team in 2022.
Poor Ryan. If only he had Backstage at his last job.
You know what makes Backstage even better? Our Stack Overflow for Teams integration.
Connect with Pia on LinkedIn.
Markus Pscheidt gets today’s shoutout for winning the Populist badge with their answer to Dynamic tag values for the Counter metric in Micrometer.
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Democratizing your data access with AI agents
23 september 2025 · 29 min
Jeff Hollan, director of product at Snowflake, joins Ryan to discuss the role that data plays in making AI and AI agents better. Along the way, they discuss how a database leads to an AI platform, Snowflake’s new data marketplace, and the role data will play in AI agents. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Snowflake provides a fully-managed data platform that developers can build AI apps on.
We’re happy to have Stack Exchange data available on the Snowflake Marketplace.
Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Congrats to Timeless for throwing a Lifejacket to Using pandas to read HTML.
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Off with your CMS’s head! Composability and security in headless CMS
19 september 2025 · 23 min
Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger, VP of Engineering at Storyblok, to talk about how headless content management systems (CMS) fit into an increasingly componentized software landscape. They run through the differences between headless and traditional CMS systems (and databases), prototyping and security concerns, and how a team building distributed systems can get that precious velocity by decoupling their content from its rendering. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Storyblok provides a headless CMS they say is made for humans but built for the AI-driven era.
Want to learn more about CMS design? Check out other pieces we’ve done with CMS providers Drupal and Builder.io.
Connect with Sebastian on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Congrats to Populist badge winner Răzvan Flavius Panda for dropping an amazing answer on How do I change the maintenance database for Postgres?.
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What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company
16 september 2025 · 24 min
Ryan chats with Karen Ng, EVP of Product at HubSpot, to chat about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how they implemented it for their server for their CRM product. They chat the emergence of this as the standard for agentic interactions, the challenges of implementing the server and integrating it with their ecosystem, and how agentic AI has affected work at Hubspot. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Hubspot is a customer-relationship management (CRM) platform that aims to help businesses grow.
MCP is an open-source protocol for connecting AI agents to external systems, originally developers at Anthropic.
Connect with Karen on LinkedIn.
Virtual hi-five to Rob Truxal for asking What is the purpose of "pip install --user ..."? and garnering themselves a Stellar Question badge.
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Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI
12 september 2025 · 33 min
Ryan welcomes Geraint North, AI and developer platforms fellow at Arm, to dive into the impact of GenAI on chip design, Arm’s approach to designing flexible CPU architectures, and the challenges of optimizing large language models at the chip level for edge devices. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Arm is a global compute platform that allows the world’s leading technology companies to innovate and deliver AI experiences.
Arm just announced their Lumex CSS Platform, which provides a complete compute subsystem platform for mobile and desktop providers to enable efficient AI workloads.
Connect with Geraint on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Lifejacket badge winner I.sh., who won the badge for answering How to take screenshot on failure.
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How AI is reshaping developer teams and the future of software development
11 september 2025 · 31 min
In this two-part episode of Leaders of Code, Peter O’Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, welcomes Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google, Developer Experiences, for a deep dive into the future of software development. They explore how AI-assisted tools are reshaping the developer experience, going far beyond just writing code. From breaking down deployment bottlenecks to streamlining operations and transforming how teams collaborate, this conversation unpacks where developer tooling is headed and how AI is changing the game at every stage of the software lifecycle. Lees meer
The discussion also:
Addresses how AI is transforming team structures, enabling engineering teams to operate effectively with just a few people, reducing collaboration overhead and accelerating decision-making.
Highlights the future of platform engineering and DevOps, where AI will assist with standardization and dynamically create and manage deployment pipelines in real time.
Episode notes:
Connect with Peter O’Connor and Ryan J Salva.
Check out Google’s open source repository, Gemini-CLI, on GitHub.
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We built stackoverflow.ai with the community and for the community
9 september 2025 · 34 min
Ryan is joined by our very own Ash Zade, Product Manager, and Alex Warren, Staff Software Engineer, to discuss our newly released stackoverflow.ai, how it’s enhancing user experience by combining human-validated answers with AI, and our future plans for deeper personalization and community integration. Lees meer
Episode notes:
stackoverflow.ai is helping you get the technical answers you need with less friction, all powered by our 16 years of community knowledge.
Connect with Ash on LinkedIn.
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn.
This week we’re shouting out user Ketan Ramani for winning a Populist badge for their answer to How to go about formatting 1200 to 1.2k in Android studio.
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Kotlin is more than just the Android house language
5 september 2025 · 31 min
Ryan welcomes Jeffrey van Gogh, Director of Engineering, Android Developer Experience, at Google and board member of the Kotlin Foundation. They discuss the evolution of the Kotlin language from JVM to multiplatform, how their governance board works with the community to stop breaking changes, and the intricacies of Kotlin’s multiplatform capabilities beyond just Android. Lees meer
Episode notes:
The Kotlin Foundation’s mission is to protect, promote, and advance the development of the Kotlin programming language.
Over half of respondents in this year’s Annual Developer Survey reported that they want to start using Kotlin in the next year.
Connect with Jeffrey on LinkedIn or email him at jvg@google.com.
Congrats to user BMac on winning a Populist badge for answering the question How to convert UPPERCASE text to Title Case using CSS.
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Building AI for consumer applications isn’t all fun and games
2 september 2025 · 30 min
Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld, joins the show to discuss the technical challenges of creating interactive AI for virtual worlds and games, the significance of user experience, and the importance of accessibility and cost-efficiency in deploying AI models. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Inworld provides solutions for AI applications that allow teams to build and deploy workloads, spend less time on maintenance, and accelerate iteration speed.
Connect with Kylan on LinkedIn.
Today we’re shouting out the winner of an Illuminator badge, user MrWhite, who edited and answered 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.
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Open-source is for the people, by the people
29 augustus 2025 · 38 min
Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, joins Ryan to explore the development of Python as a data science tool, the evolution of these foundational libraries, and the importance of community and collaboration in open-source projects, including Travis’ current work to support sustainable open-source through the OpenTeams Incubator. Lees meer
Episode notes:
NumPy and SciPy are the fundamental packages and algorithms for scientific computing with Python. NumPy 2.3.0 and SciPy 1.16.0 are out now.
The OpenTeams Incubator helps start, grow, and sustain open-source software communities.
Quansight is a data, science, and engineering firm rooted in the work of the Python Data, Science, and AI/ML open-source communities.
Connect with Travis on LinkedIn or email him at travis@OTincubator.com
Today we’re shouting out user RobinFrcd for answering pytest-asyncio has a closed event loop, but only when running all tests and winning a Populist badge.
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From punch cards to prompts: a history of how software got better
27 augustus 2025 · 34 min
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Ryan welcomes Darko Mesaroš, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS and all around computer history buff, to chat about history of software development improvements and how they made developers made more productive. They discuss the technologies and breakthroughs that created greater abstractions on the underlying bit manipulations and made software development more powerful.
Episode notes:
If you’re looking to take advantage of the breakthroughs mentioned in this episode, check out AWS Builder Center, a place for you to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community.
If you want to connect with Darko, find him on social media including LinkedIn.
Congrats to Lundin for being curious and asking about Implicit type promotion rules.
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Svelte was built on “slinging code for the sheer love of it”
26 augustus 2025 · 35 min
Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and software engineer at Vercel, joins Ryan on the show to dive into the evolution and future of web frameworks. They discuss the birth and growth of Svelte during the rise of mobile, the challenges of building robust and efficient web applications, how companies can back more open-source community projects, and the dirty little secret about asynchronous operations and component frameworks. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Svelte is a UI framework that uses a compiler to let you write components using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It’s ranked as one of developer’s most admired web frameworks in this year’s Developer Survey.
Keep up with the Svelte community on the Svelte Society page.
Find Rich on Blue Sky and GitHub.
Congrats to Paul Pladijs, who won a Populist badge for answering the question How can one change the timestamp of an old commit in Git?.
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Learning in the flow: Unlocking employee potential through continuous learning
22 augustus 2025 · 33 min
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Christina Dacauaziliqua, Senior Learning Specialist at Morgan Stanley, talk about the importance of experiential learning in fast-paced environments. They emphasize the value of creating intentional learning environments where innovative tools meet collaborative communities to support growth for both individuals and organizations. Lees meer
The discussion also:
Explores why leaders need to model continuous learning to inspire their teams.
Explains three practical principles to embed a culture of ongoing learning into everyday operations successfully.
Touches on Morgan Stanley's multi-year strategic initiatives centred on talent excellence and how they empower employees through an intentional learning framework and metric tracking.
Notes:
Connect with Christina Dacauaziliqua and Prashanth Chandrasekar.
Learn how to empower learning within your organization with Stack Overflow for Teams.
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Robots in the skies (and they use Transformer models)
22 augustus 2025 · 27 min
Ryan welcomes Nathan Michael, CTO at Shield AI, to discuss what AI looks like in defense technologies, both technically and ethically. They cover how the Hivemind technology works in coordinating the autonomous decisions of drones in the field while keeping humans in the loop, whether Shield AI is building Terminators, and how software security works on an edge device that could fall into enemy hands. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Shield AI produces Hivemind, a resilient autonomy platform intended to protect service members and civilians.
Congrats to Great Answer badge winner tmdavison for dropping a 100 point plus answer on Set max value for color bar on seaborn heatmap.
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The server-side rendering equivalent for LLM inference workloads
19 augustus 2025 · 22 min
Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning models to large-scale neural networks has made GPU usage challenging, and the potential future of hardware-specific optimizations in AI. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring AI products to market fast.
Connect with Tuhin on LinkedIn or reach him at his email tuhin@baseten.co.
Shoutout to user Hitesh for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Cannot drop database because it is currently in use.
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The future of Vue is you (and You)
15 augustus 2025 · 29 min
Ryan welcomes Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, to explore the origins of Vue.js, the challenges faced during its development, and the project’s growth over a decade. They dive into potential integrations for AI, future developments for Vue.js, and the sustainability of open-source projects. Lees meer
Episode notes:
Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework that’s approachable, performant, and versatile for building web user interfaces.
Check out what Evan and his team are doing to create the next generation of tooling at Void Zero.
Vue was ranked as the eighth most-popular web framework in the 2025 Developer Survey.
Congrats to Stellar Question badge winner Hari, who won for asking the question JavaScript - Track mouse position.
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AI isn’t stealing your job, it’s helping you find it
12 augustus 2025 · 37 min
Wenjing Zhang, VP of Engineering, and Caleb Johnson, Principal Engineer at LinkedIn, sit down with Ryan to discuss how semantic search and AI have transformed LinkedIn’s job search feature. They explore the engineering efforts behind transitioning from keyword-based search and the impact of AI models on LinkedIn’s job seekers and employers. Lees meer
Episode notes:
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with more than one billion members.
Connect with Caleb on LinkedIn.
Connect with Wenjing on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Mattias Larsson, who won a Populist badge for answering Singleton Class which requires some async call.
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Python: Come for the language, stay for the community
8 augustus 2025 · 31 min
Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They cover Python’s pivotal moments and rise alongside the internet, the increased adoption from transitions like Python 2 to Python 3, and the significant role Python plays in academia and data science today. Lees meer
Episode notes:
JetBrains is improving the developer experience through a rich suite of tools.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn and X.
Python is the fourth most-popular language in our 2025 Developer Survey.
From the archives: Why is the migration to Python 3 taking so long?
Today we’re shouting out a popular Python question, Fastest way to find the least amount of subsets that sum up to the total set in Python, asked by user Shaun Han.
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