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Developers think AI assistants will be everywhere, but aren’t sure how to feel about it (Ep. 548)
The things we expect to succeed aren't always the things we're hoping to see more of.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Stack Overflow Podcast
The Stack Overflow podcast is a frank and funny conversation about what it means to work in software and how code is reshaping our world. As it celebrates its 12th anniversary, it’s a must-listen for any programmer, as necessary as Stack Overflow itself.
How to position yourself to land the job you want (Ep. 547)
The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
From writing code to teaching code (Ep. 546)
After 37 courses, he's learned a thing or two about teaching.
“Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply to other people’s savings (Ep. 545)
Christine Ryu, Engineering Lead at fintech platform Flourish, joins the home team to talk about how technology is transforming finance for everyone from big banks to individual consumers. Christine explains what it’s like to move from Goldman Sachs to a tiny startup, how legacy tech stacks lead to Frankencode, and what an acquisition taught her about build vs. buy and good vs. perfect.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
The nature of simulating nature: A Q&A with IBM Quantum researcher Dr. Jamie Garcia (Ep. 544)
Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, tells Ryan about IBM’s 433-qubit quantum computer and the real-life applications of quantum computing today.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
The open-source game engine you’ve been waiting for: Godot (Ep. 543)
Juan Linietsky, cofounder and lead developer of the Godot Engine, joins the home team for a conversation about what led him to create an open-source game engine, how open source is shaping game development, and the well-worn path from playing video games to learning to build them.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
ML and AI consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 542)
The home team talks with Jaclyn Rice Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Tribe AI, about the explosion of hype surrounding generative AI, what it’s like to work at a startup after working at Google, and how Tribe is leveraging the power of a specialist network.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
Shorten the distance between production data and insight (Ep. 541)
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it.
Authorization on Rails (Ep. 540)
Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
Because the only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them (Ep. 539)
David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both!
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
You don’t have to build a browser in JavaScript anymore (Ep. 538)
What’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer