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• Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations
• Rust is evolving from system-level language to UI and frontend development
• Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering
• Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
• A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
• Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models
• The changing state of the Internet and related business models
• Attribution as the foundation of developer trust
• Ongoing community data protection
• Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic
• Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
• Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
• He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.
• Detecting errors in AI-generated code
• Elevating your search experience: Stack Overflow for Teams ML-powered reranking experiment
• Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI
• The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs
• Enterprise 2024.6: Identify and engage your subject matter experts
• One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
• The evolution of full stack engineers
• The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
• The hidden cost of speed
• Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
• At scale, anything that could fail definitely will
• Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi
• Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?
• From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how one backend engineer evolved over time
• LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much.
• Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0
• Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce
• Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers
• Scaling systems to manage all the metadata ABOUT the data
• How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible
• Accessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow
• Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results
• This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved?
• How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet
• Research roadmap update: August 2024
• Enterprise 2024.5: Encouraging and growing community contributions
• How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots
• On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.
• Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey
• The problem with the tech debt mindset
• Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024
• How to bridge the gap between Web2 skills and Web3 workflows
• The framework helping devs build LLM apps
• The ghost jobs haunting your career search
• Why we built Staging Ground
• How data are reshaping society: “Datafication” and socioeconomic transformations
• We chat search from both sides now
• What can devs do about code review anxiety?
• Happy people make better products
• Community Products Roadmap Update, July 2024
• How to build open source apps in a highly regulated industry
• Explaining generative language models to (almost) anyone
• A very special 5-year-anniversary edition of the Stack Overflow podcast!
• Say goodbye to "junior" engineering roles
• Enterprise 2024.4: Demonstrating and improving community impact
• The real 10x developer makes their whole team better
• Making ETL pipelines a thing of the past
• The world’s most popular web framework is going AI native
• A peek behind the curtain with Stack Overflow’s sales engineers
• Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You
• This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests
• Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
• Introducing Staging Ground: The private space to get feedback on questions before they’re posted
• How to prevent your new chatbot from giving away company secrets
• Can software startups that need $$$ avoid venture capital?
• Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results
• An open-source development paradigm
• Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?
• You should keep a developer’s journal
• How to train your dream machine
• The Good, the Bad, and the Disruptive: Let us know where you stand in the 2024 Annual Developer Survey
• OverflowAI and the holy grail of search
• OverflowAI is now Generally Available! A new era of community-driven AI
• Spreading the gospel of Python
• Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into production?
• Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD
• Reshaping the future of API platforms
• The reverse mullet model of software engineering
• Upcoming research at Stack Overflow
• Collaborating smarter, not harder
• Net neutrality is in; TikTok and noncompetes are out
• Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050
• What language should beginning programmers choose?
• Is GenAI the next dot-com bubble?
• Why configuration is so complicated
• If everyone is building AI, why aren't more projects in production?
• How do you evaluate an LLM? Try an LLM.
• How to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout
• Diverting more backdoor disasters
• Climbing the GenAI decision tree
• Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk.
• What a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow
• How do mixture-of-experts layers affect transformer models?
• Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model
• Are long context windows the end of RAG?
• Will antitrust suits benefit developers?