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stackoverflow.blogElevators, toasters, and the birth of JavaRyan 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 the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.

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stackoverflow.blogRumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggeratedRecorded 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 understanding system architectures to manage long-term infrastructure costs.

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stackoverflow.blogSurvey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying putEarlier 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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stackoverflow.blogDon't forget about the UI for AIRecorded 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 desktop application, and the technical hurdles of constructing ChatGPT Spaces to support real-time multi-agent collaboration.

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stackoverflow.blogProduction-grade LLMs and agents: a field guideA 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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stackoverflow.blogAI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrongRyan 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 and model-based testing can verify AI-generated code against real-world production data.

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stackoverflow.blogWhy 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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stackoverflow.blogYour next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of AndelaWhile the whispers say that everyone is becoming a generalist, that's not where headcount is going.

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stackoverflow.blogWhy 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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stackoverflow.blogKeep calm and call clone with RustRyan 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 psychological safety for complex systems, and how strict compiler constraints make Rust an ideal target for AI coding agents.

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stackoverflow.blogBeyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiringIt’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.

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stackoverflow.blogTaking a look under your agent’s hoodRyan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and production workflows, and navigating emerging challenges in AI security and tokenomics.

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stackoverflow.blogProduction-grade LLMs and agents: a field guideA 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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stackoverflow.blogPart 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneathYour service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the infrastructure that lets you see your decisions, bound your spend, route and fail over between models, kill bad behavior in seconds — and the platform that makes all of it possible.

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stackoverflow.blogA green exit code is not evidence that the work happenedAgents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape. It's that the feedback loop you would need in order to learn the tool is broken at the point of measurement.

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stackoverflow.blogPart 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined buildCoding agents are great for an afternoon and mediocre for a quarter. Here’s the small set of files and rules — with the actual configs — that keeps quality from decaying across months and thousands of edits, whether you run one agent or a fleet of them on the same repo.

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stackoverflow.blogTales from the 2026 Developer Survey resultsRyan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role of well-organized documentation in providing verifiable context to mitigate AI hallucinations, and the evolving ways developers are shifting away from active community posting in favor of passive knowledge consumption.

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stackoverflow.blogThe results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.

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stackoverflow.blogConstraints that make developers fasterRyan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI agents.

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stackoverflow.blogA look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospectiveThis analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographics and community.

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stackoverflow.blogOrganizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources disagree, or when they become stale.

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stackoverflow.blogAnyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack InternalStack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a Stack Internal workspace for free by visiting stackinternal.com.

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stackoverflow.blogYour phone is AI’s newest hardwareRyan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app interactions.

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stackoverflow.blogWhy model versioning is not enough for production AIAn MLOps workflow for evaluating deploying and rolling back AI applications

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stackoverflow.blogProfessional skepticism is a dev’s best skillRyan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down to managing application state.

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stackoverflow.blogMultiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chatRyan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.

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stackoverflow.blogHaters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCmRyan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software and hardware development timelines.

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stackoverflow.blogThe AI magic wordsRyan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is becoming highly valuable as knowledge becomes a commodity.

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stackoverflow.blogFrom better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for AgentsWe've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the platform (including our new ChatGPT plugin), and how we're continuing to build Stack Overflow.

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stackoverflow.blogFrom better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for AgentsWe've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the platform (including our new ChatGPT plugin), and how we're continuing to build Stack Overflow.

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stackoverflow.blogAI, JD, and other letters of the lawRyan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws.

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stackoverflow.blogAI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse gameRyan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and why building more resilient code infrastructure is the best way to address the vulnerabilities AI does discover.

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stackoverflow.blog(Re)introducing Developer StoryFor the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.

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stackoverflow.blogJava’s age is its AI superpowerRyan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.

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stackoverflow.blogScaling your money safely with AIRyan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience.

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stackoverflow.blogHow to build a secure-by-default AI coding agentRyan 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 prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.

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stackoverflow.blogElevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade knowledge.

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stackoverflow.blogThe 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 infrastructure side of agentic development. ICYMI, part one covered judgment, code review, and data activation.

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stackoverflow.blogThe good ol’ days of building JavaRyan 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 most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete with Windows NT, and how applets were initially just an interesting demo.

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stackoverflow.blogWhen you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correctRyan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements probabilistic AI models, and the use of AI for continuous code optimization.

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stackoverflow.blogInside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalizationRyan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state.

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stackoverflow.blogResponsible AI adoption needs developer workflow designOrganizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.

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stackoverflow.blogDispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic developmentWhen code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.

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stackoverflow.blogGet rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is botsRyan 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 sites won’t survive our current digital evolution, and why your site will always need structured content.

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stackoverflow.blogFrom 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 like a break from the past and more like the next chapter of the same story. This is part one of a two-part conversation.