Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that).

Eira May

Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one.

Ryan Donovan

Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different.

Prashanth Chandrasekar

Ben talks with Doug Seven, a director of software development at AWS and the GM for CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, about his career building dev tools and how he hopes AI will give people more bandwidth for creative work.

Eira May

For AI tools to be useful to your team, they have to fit into your existing workflows.

Eira May

What exactly is a vector database? And how does it relate to generative AI?

Leonie Monigatti

Highlighting one of the interesting discussions going on in our Collectives.

Ben Popper

When all the other languages go one way, time to change direction.

Ryan Donovan

From Angular JS to Raspberry Pi, from React to Prompt Engineering, our community has been asking questions and sharing knowledge that helps the entire world build better.

David Longworth, Ben Popper

Go behind the scenes to learn how we designed our new search.

Emma Bulajewski, Ellen Chan

Semantic search and augmenting LLMs have sent everyone turning their text into vectors. But where do you store all that vector data?

Stanimira Vlaeva, Benjamin Flast

The conventional metaphor for career success is a ladder, but there are a lot of problems with this narrative.

Eira May

How does our emphasis on impostor syndrome keep us from having bigger, harder conversations about how to improve life for developers?

Eira May

A series of amazing breakthroughs are allowing paralyzed people to speak and emote. With each passing month, we get closer to a brain-computer interface that might unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our grey matter.

Ben Popper

We needed to remove the dependency on the Sites database and contain all Teams infrastructure and data within the TFZ which is all part of Phase II.

We're updating things to highlight community contributions, make it easier to keep tabs on our latest releases, and connect your Stack Overflow account to the discussion happening on the blog.

Ben Popper

Stack Overflow for Teams' journey to the cloud started with a new name.

If you want the tech debt metaphor to really shine, get some numbers behind it.

Ryan Donovan

A Qualcomm expert breaks down some of the tools and techniques they use to fit GenAI models on a smartphone.

Felix Baum

We're setting the record straight.

Des Darilek

If edge functions were an onion, most of the layers would be caching.

Ryan Donovan

Semantic search allows users to search using natural language instead of a rigid syntax of keyword manipulation.

David Haney, David Gibson

Let’s highlight the new features and products we announced today from the stage of WeAreDevelopers.

Prashanth Chandrasekar

DevOps has helped lots of organizations improve their processes, but others have only seen frustration and burnout.

Luca Galante