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Ep 856From punch cards to prompts: a history of how software got better

SPONSORED BY AWSRyan 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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 27, 202534 min

Ep 857Svelte was built on “slinging code for the sheer love of it”

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. 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?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 26, 202535 min

Ep 854Learning in the flow: Unlocking employee potential through continuous learning

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. 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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 22, 202533 min

Ep 855Robots in the skies (and they use Transformer models)

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. 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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 22, 202526 min

Ep 853The server-side rendering equivalent for LLM inference workloads

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. 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 [email protected]. Shoutout to user Hitesh for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Cannot drop database because it is currently in use. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 19, 202521 min

Ep 852The future of Vue is you (and You)

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. 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 15, 202529 min

Ep 851AI isn’t stealing your job, it’s helping you find it

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.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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 12, 202537 min

Ep 850Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

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. 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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 8, 202530 min

Ep 849Being unambiguous in what you want: the software engineer in a vibe coding world

Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joins the show to dive into the implications of AI coding tools on the software engineering lifecycle. They explore how AI tools are transforming the work of developers from syntax-focused tasks to higher-level design and management roles, and how AI will integrate into enterprise environments. Episode notes:Sourcegraph is building AI-code agents for enterprises to accelerate how companies build software.Connect with Quinn on LinkedIn, X, and on his website. Today’s shoutout is for user sumek, who won a Populist badge for answering the question How do you search through Vim's command history?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 5, 202530 min

Ep 848The innovation, leadership, and team agility inside U.S. Bank’s cloud journey

U.S. Bank has undergone a significant digital transformation, implementing a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate innovation and improve customer-focused development. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the bank must navigate the challenge of balancing innovation with strict compliance requirements while meeting the evolving demands and needs of customers and employees. In this episode of Leaders of Code, Jody Bailey, Stack Overflow’s CPO, Anirudh Kaul, Senior Director of Software Engineering, and Paul Petersen, Cloud Platform Engineering Manager, discuss the U.S. Bank’s journey from traditional banking practices to embracing new technologies. The conversation covers the technical and organizational aspects of large-scale cloud migration, along with their leadership approach during this transformative period.Key topics include: How U.S. Bank empowers teams to innovate without sacrificing team agility. The importance of team collaboration, transparency, trust, and continuous communication in fostering innovation and successful tool adoption. Cloud migration strategies and the role of platform engineering in enabling and supporting organizational change. Notes: Connect with Anirudh Kaul and Paul Petersen. Learn more about U.S. Bank. Connect with Jody Bailey on LinkedIn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 31, 202535 min

Ep 847That custom gift for your mom takes more work than you think

Etsy is a global marketplace that keeps human connection at the heart of commerce. Connect with Mahir on LinkedIn.This week’s shoutout goes to user jsignell, who won a Populist badge for their answer to How do I tell if a column in a pandas dataframe is of type datetime? How do I tell if a column is numerical?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 29, 202537 min

Ep 846Saving the world with speed and at scale

The Speed & Scale Plan is a global initiative to move leaders to act on the climate crisis, tracking progress towards net zero by 2050. Explore Speed & Scale’s resources for combating climate change, and connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and X. Congratulations to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó who won the badge for answering the question What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 25, 202526 min

Ep 845“AI has been the wild west”: Creating standards for agents with Sean Falconer

Confluent is an all-in-one, real-time platform that allows you to stream, connect, process, and govern your data.Connect with Sean on Linkedin, and listen to the Software Engineering Daily podcast, where he co-hosts.Do you know the answer to Loadrunner lr_get_attrib_string always returns null? If so, you can help out Trncvs and receive the bounty offered on the question.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 22, 202531 min

Ep 844How to do your job happier

Read more findings from the Developer Success Lab here. Find John at his website and connect with him on LinkedIn.Congrats to user Matthieu M. who won a Populist badge for answering the question struct with 2 cells vs std::pair?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 18, 202522 min

Ep 843Where we’re going, we don’t need fossil fuels

Realta Fusion is making fusion real and tackling today’s clean energy issues with innovative technology. Follow them on LinkedIn.Connect with Kieran on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner zathura, who was awarded the badge for answering Type of triangle in MySQL.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 15, 202537 min

Ep 842How your favorite movie is changing language learning technology

Koel Labs uses classic movies to help learners master pronunciation. You can join the waitlist for their closed beta launch now. Check out their open-source community project for Koel Labs on GitHub.Check out their project on the Mozilla Builders site. Connect with Aruna on LinkedIn. Connect with Ruslan on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Populous badge winner Tomáš Záluský, who won the badge for answering the question How to chain multiple assertThat statement in AssertJ.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 11, 202523 min

Ep 841There is no golden path anymore: Engineering practices are being rewritten

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, and Loïc Houssier, CTO at Superhuman, dive into how engineering teams can navigate paradigm shifts in a world of constant technological change. They discuss the importance of leadership in an ever-shifting industry and highlight the concept of aligned autonomy as a way to empower teams and increase organizational velocity.The conversation also covers: The impact of AI on workflows and practices across the entire organization at Superhuman, including improving onboarding, helping employees streamline their work, and enabling teams to tackle projects that were previously put on hold. The strategic use of qualitative and quantitative engineering performance metrics to measure and improve team effectiveness. Episode notes: Connect with Loïc Houssier on LinkedIn. Learn more about Superhuman, the leading AI-native email app for high-performing teams. Connect with Ben Matthews on LinkedIn or Bluesky. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 10, 202536 min

Ep 840Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too

NEAR is the blockchain for AI, enabling AI agents to transact freely across networks.Connect with Illia on LinkedIn and X, and read the original Transformers paper that Illia co-authored in 2017.Today’s shoutout goes to Populous badge winner Adi Lester for answering the question DataTable - foreach Row, EXCEPT FIRST ONE.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 8, 202536 min

Ep 839Why call one API when you can use GraphQL to call them all?

Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.Today we’re shouting out a Famous Question badge winner, user jkfe, for their question How to hide/show thymeleaf fields based on controller condition?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 4, 202525 min

Ep 838Programming problems that seem easy, but aren't, featuring Jon Skeet

Jon Skeet, for those not in the know, is legendary here at Stack Overflow. He even got his own Chuck Norris Facts-style jokes. Jon has graced the podcast before in the early days on episodes 4, 72, and 123.He’s so good at answering Stack Overflow questions that he appeared at Stack Overflow’s old NYC office and answered them in person. While he’s not the only million rep user, he was the first, so we ran the numbers on him. Have a question? Jon Skeet has probably answered it on Stack Overflow. You can also find him on Blue Sky.Looking for C# 3.5? Spoiler alert: you won’t find it. Learn why from Jon’s very helpful question What are the correct version numbers for C#?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 1, 202532 min

Ep 837You’ve got 99 problems but data shouldn’t be one

Tobiko Data is creating a new standard in data transformation with their Cloud and SQL integrations. You can keep up with their work by joining their Slack community.Connect with Toby on LinkedIn.Connect with Iaroslav on LinkedIn.Congrats to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó, whose answer to What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim? was saved by over 100 users.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 27, 202529 min

Ep 836You've vibe coded an app. Now what?

SPONSORED BY HEROKUHeroku is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying, scaling, and managing apps. Connect with Vish on X and LinkedIn. Congrats to Populist badge winner AmaDaden for their answer to How to generate a legend with colors in PlantUML?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 25, 202526 min

Ep 835How to build your prototypes without a 35% tariff

Ryan and Ben welcome Alex Malcoci, CEO and founder of MiniProto, to talk innovations in hardware prototyping, the evolving complexities of the global supply chain, the impact of the US-China trade war on manufacturing, and how automation in production could lead to new training programs for future engineers.Episode notes:MiniProto is a US-based prototyping manufacturer revolutionizing the way we develop and interact with hardware. Connect with Alex on LinkedIn.Shoutout to an Unsung Hero of Stack Overflow, Hamed Jimoh, who deserves upvotes for their more than 10 accepted answers with a zero score.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 24, 202522 min

Ep 834Defending the realm: Trust and safety at Stack Overflow

The Trust and Safety team is using aliases in this episode. Learn more about who the Community Management team is at Stack Overflow. Explore how we keep our community safe in our Code of Conduct. Congratulations to Lifeboat badge recipient Arvin Yorro, who won it for their helpful answer to the question Docker Desktop - WSL update failed.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 20, 202537 min

Ep 833"My job is going to change in a dramatic way”: Exploring the future of the internet with Cloudflare

Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to the growing need for sustainable content monetization and fair compensation for creators in an AI-driven world, and how this connects to Cloudflare’s mission to build a better internet.The conversation also: Explores how Cloudflare leverages AI internally to enhance developer productivity and improve code quality while keeping developers as owners of their work. Covers Cloudflare’s innovative organizational structure and their journey toward becoming an AI-first company. Episode notes: Connect with Dane on LinkedIn or X, and learn more about Cloudflare. Read more about Knowledge Solutions, a data licensing offering that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset. Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 19, 202523 min

Ep 832After 30 years, Java is still brewing up new features

Connect with Georges on LinkedIn and see his work on inside.java.Listen to our previous episode with Georges, a celebration of Java’s 25th anniversary. Today we’re shouting out the age-old question What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it?, which was answered 31 times as a community effort.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 17, 202527 min

Ep 831“We’re not worried about compute anymore”: The future of AI models

Together AI is a platform for building with open-source and specialized multimodal models. Check out their docs.Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn.Shoutout to user aryaxt who earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering about MySQL Data - Best way to implement paging?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 13, 202525 min

Ep 829Better vibes and vibe coding with Gemini 2.5

Gemini 2.5 is DeepMind’s most advanced model yet, with strong reasoning and coding capabilities. Connect with Tulsee on LinkedIn.Connect with Logan on LinkedIn and Stack Overflow. Check out our previous episode with Logan, we discussed his unique path from coding to AI to product, the challenges of non-determinism in AI models, and surprising lessons from working at the Apple Store.Congrats to Populous badge winner Pascal MARTIN for answering the question PHP echo vs PHP short echo tags.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 10, 202533 min

Ep 828Banking on a serverless world

Explore how Capital One is using tech to innovate the banking experience here.Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and visit her blog. Shoutout to user Theraot for answering the questions How to connect a signal with extra arguments in Godot 4, which won them a Lifeboat badge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 6, 202523 min

Ep 827If an attacker can edit your mobile code, how do you defend your app?

SPONSORED BY GUARDSQUARELearn more about mobile application security and how to protect your app.Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Chitrakshi for rescuing TypeScript Error: No overload matches this call in Express route handler.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 4, 202528 min

Ep 826In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel

Antithesis is an autonomous testing platform that finds bugs in your software with perfect reproducibility.Connect with Will Wilson on Linkedin.Congrats to user hannes neukermans whose question How can I do tag wrapping in Visual Studio Code? won them a Stellar Question badge.Our 2025 Developer Survey is live! We want to know what your developer life is like!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 3, 202528 min

Ep 825Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify

Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page, including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick.Connect with Glen Coates on LinkedIn and X.Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C#.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 30, 202530 min

Ep 824Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success

The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively. Explores how Abnormal Security utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and his team are leveraging AI to drive compounding productivity within their organization. Connect with Dan Shiebler on LinkedIn and learn more about Abnormal Security.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 29, 202532 min

Ep 823“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents

Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here.Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Smrutiranjan Sahu, who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 27, 202532 min

Ep 822WBIT #8: Typescript for gut biomes

Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. Connect with Tyler on Twitter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 26, 202544 min

Ep 821Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so.

Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things. Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn.Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 23, 202537 min

Ep 820Durable execution: autosave for your microservices

DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures.Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn.Connect with Qian on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned them a Lifeboat badge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 20, 202522 min

Ep 819Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS

The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building.Connect with Christophe on LinkedIn. Instead of a badge, we have a question for you: If you are a developer who is working with AI agents, what are you building? What tools are you looking for? What problems are you interested in solving with AI tools? Send us an email at [email protected]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 16, 202529 min

Ep 818Next-level observability: live breakpoint debugging

SPONSORED BY DYNATRACEDynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster.Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger.Connect with Henrik Rexed on LinkedIn or check out Is it Observable on YouTube.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 14, 202526 min

Ep 817Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub.We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready. Find Maryam on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answer to Is it possible to download a website’s entire code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 13, 202529 min

Ep 816Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns

Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions.Connect with Abby on LinkedIn.Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android programmatically?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 9, 202528 min

Ep 811Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives. They also discuss: AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work. The challenges of scaling organizations and the importance of centralized developer experience teams to improve productivity. How non-technical staff can contribute to engineering tasks through the democratization of technology, enabling more innovation. Episode notes: Connect with Dan Lines on LinkedIn. If you're looking to improve productivity for your engineering organization, check out LinearB. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 8, 202530 min

Ep 815Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect

Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs.Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 6, 202530 min

Ep 814Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture

SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech.Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn.This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 2, 202534 min

Ep 813“We’re not replacing you; we’re with you”: Where AI meets infrastructure

The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch.Find Greg on LinkedIn.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 29, 202521 min

Ep 812Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX

Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 25, 202517 min

Ep 811Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence

They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness. Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments. Episode notes: Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk. Visit Lloyds Banking Group to discover available job opportunities. Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 24, 202523 min

Ep 810Visually orchestrating data diagnostics but platform agnostic

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents.Find Florian on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 22, 202523 min

Ep 809Generating components, not tokens

Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. Connect with Laly on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog contributor Charlie Martin for their answer to How does this proof, that the halting problem is undecidable, work?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 18, 202523 min

Ep 808WBIT #7: Exploring WebAssembly with the first SO user to get 10k rep

Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020. While Michael may have been the first user to get 10,000 rep, he’s not stopping there. His current employer, neuRealities, is still in stealth mode, shhhh.Find Michael on his blog and possibly elsewhere. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 16, 202536 min