The Stack Overflow Podcast
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For well over a decade, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software engineering is changing our world. From creating code to running it in production, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ryan Donovan, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things software.
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- Agentic search doesn't find pages, it assembles answers · 27 min · Episodio 1008Ryan sits down with Jeff Wang, co-founder at EXA, to talk about the huge scale required to support trillions of agentic searches, the technical complexities of building custom…
- Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem · 30 min · Episodio 1007Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous…
- Welcome to life in the chip age · 33 min · Episodio 1006Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern…
- Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too · 30 min · Episodio 1005Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the…
- It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us · 27 min · Episodio 1004Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code…
- Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java · 36 min · Episodio 1003Ryan 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…
- Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated · 26 min · Episodio 1002Recorded 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…
- Don't forget about the UI for AI · 25 min · Episodio 1001Recorded 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…
- AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong · 29 min · Episodio 1000Ryan 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…
- Keep calm and call clone with Rust · 44 min · Episodio 999Ryan 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…
- Taking a look under your agent’s hood · 33 min · Episodio 998Ryan 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…
- Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results · 33 min · Episodio 997Ryan 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…
- Constraints that make developers faster · 28 min · Episodio 996Ryan 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…
- Your phone is AI’s newest hardware · 27 min · Episodio 995Ryan 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…
- Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill · 29 min · Episodio 994Ryan 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…
- Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat · 30 min · Episodio 992SPONSORED BY SLACK BY SALESFORCEIn this episode, Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team…
- Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm · 27 min · Episodio 993Ryan 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…
- The AI magic words · 24 min · Episodio 991Ryan 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…
- AI, JD, and other letters of the law · 38 min · Episodio 990Ryan 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…
- AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game · 28 min · Episodio 989Ryan 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…
- Java’s age is its AI superpower · 36 min · Episodio 988SPONSORED BY IBMRyan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java. They talk about why the long history of Java both makes for…
- Scaling your money safely with AI · 29 min · Episodio 987Episode notes: This episode with Paypal’s CTO Srini Venkatesan was recorded at the Ai4 conference. Listen to our other Ai4 conversation with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for…
- How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent · 32 min · Episodio 986Ryan 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…
- The good ol’ days of building Java · 30 min · Episodio 984Ryan 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…
- When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct · 25 min · Episodio 983Ryan 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…
- Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization · 33 min · Episodio 982Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization.
- Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots · 33 min · Episodio 981See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1) · 26 min · Episodio 980Andi 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…
- Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset · 29 min · Episodio 979Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pipelines using MCPs, using Cohen’s kappa…
- Solving integration woes with a hackathon · 28 min · Episodio 978Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from…
- Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing · 30 min · Episodio 977Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you…
- How to be fearlessly AI native · 40 min · Episodio 976Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering is shifting code…
- Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster · 31 min · Episodio 975Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. They discuss how…
- What happens to the internet when robots act like humans? · 31 min · Episodio 974Ryan welcomes WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar to the show to chat about what happens—and what we should do—when agents start acting like humans online, how our internet is…
- You need reliable AI context for your site reliability · 27 min · Episodio 973Ryan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service context, what good context…
- Partnerships can keep open source sustainable · 27 min · Episodio 972Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript…
- The future of development is full-stack · 26 min · Episodio 971Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” for quick prototypes to…
- Developers who move fast still need to do it together · 28 min · Episodio 970At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting…
- Your AI is only as responsible as you are · 29 min · Episodio 969Recorded at Microsoft Build, Ryan welcomes Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, about how we can build and use AI responsibly with the NIST approach…
- Building more than just an agent harness · 31 min · Episodio 968Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI agents at scale with…
- What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in? · 30 min · Episodio 964SPONSORED BY IBMRyan is joined by Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at IBM, to explore what infrastructure as code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it. They…
- Agent orchestration is so two-years ago · 31 min · Episodio 967Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon tasks, why heavy orchestration…
- The good, the bad, and the AI apps · 26 min · Episodio 966Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qualitative signals with…
- How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook? · 23 min · Episodio 965Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, joins Leaders of Code to explain how his org built a repeatable, org-wide system for AI-assisted engineering.
- Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM · 30 min · Episodio 963Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction is limited when it comes to forecasting human behavior.
- Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures · 31 min · Episodio 962Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder…
- Oh the places you’ll go with spatial data · 30 min · Episodio 961Ryan is joined by Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in bringing spatial data…
- You don’t understand DNS like you think you do · 29 min · Episodio 960Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server…
- If context is king, architecture is the castle · 27 min · Episodio 959Recorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBerglis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a structured semantic…
- Developers are emotionally attached to their tools · 34 min · Episodio 958Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the…
