Twilio , a communication platform as a service (CPaaS), allows developers to build voice, video, and messaging capabilities into their apps. Devs can get started with their docs . Find Inbal on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Wesos de Queso for explaining how to Prevent a toggle group from not having a toggle selected - Java FX . AI, Twilio, Inbal Shani, machine learning, LLM, developer productivity, responsible AI, tech stack, customer engagement, conversational AI...
Jan 10, 2025•29 min•Ep. 773
To learn more about technology or careers at Intuit, visit intuit.com/technology . Want to read more about rapid prototyping at Intuit ? To connect with Himanshu, find him on LinkedIn ....
Jan 08, 2025•27 min•Ep. 772
Polly is an embedded insurance company, which means you buy the insurance for a car or house at the same time as you buy the car or house itself. Redux is a state management library for JavaScript. We’ve talked about the productivity drains that meetings can have previously on the blog. Connect with Jon on LinkedIn ....
Jan 07, 2025•30 min•Ep. 771
Jetify gives developers a cloud environment for building AI powered applications. Check out their blog or explore Jetify Cloud , a suite of managed services designed to make software development easier for teams. Daniel is on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Dhaval Simaria earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining the Difference between pushing a docker image and installing helm image ....
Jan 03, 2025•23 min•Ep. 770
In this episode: Whether AI coding tools are making your code worse, how AI can improve pull requests, building software through prompt engineering, using AI to write cleaner code, and what we can expect from this technology in 2025 and beyond. Listen to the full versions: Is AI making your code worse? - Stack Overflow This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests - Stack Overflow Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering - Stack ...
Dec 31, 2024•31 min•Ep. 769
In this episode: The birth of React, how the world’s biggest open-source business is leveraging LLMs, the creator of Jenkins on CI/CD, the creator of Node.js and Deno on open-source evolution, and an open-source development paradigm. Listen to the full versions: How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs - Stack Overflow The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs - Stack Overflow The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source - Stack Over...
Dec 27, 2024•34 min•Ep. 768
In this episode: Why developers need to upskill faster than ever, the relationship between stock prices and layoffs, how the job market for developers has changed, and the evolution of engineering roles post-GenAI. Listen to the full versions: The half-life of developer skills is shrinking rapidly - Stack Overflow AI isn't putting tech workers out of jobs, the stock price is - Stack Overflow The reverse mullet model of software engineering - Stack Overflow Say goodbye to "junior" engineering rol...
Dec 24, 2024•33 min•Ep. 767
Adora is the author of Cloud Engineering for Beginners , Beginning Azure DevOps , and Confident Cloud . She’s also the founder and executive director of NexaScale , an ed-tech non profit that offers educational support and simulated work experiences for entry-level software engineers, designers, and product managers. Check out their programs . Find Adora on LinkedIn or through her website ....
Dec 20, 2024•26 min•Ep. 766
Alexi leverages AI to streamline litigation workflows and speed up research, with an eye to giving lawyers more time and energy to devote to client strategy and support. Find Mark on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user ycr for dropping some knowledge in our CI/CD Collective : How to get the BUILD_USER in Jenkins when a human rebuilds a job triggered by timer? . Here’s a quick preview of the episode: “The founding thesis was, let’s try and build an AI that knows the law. And if we do that,...
Dec 17, 2024•39 min•Ep. 765
Thoughtful AI provides AI agents that help revenue cycle management (RCM) teams get providers their money from insurance companies. Does AI have a better bedside manner than doctors? One study suggest they do. Connect with Dan on X and LinkedIn . Congrats to Populist badge winner Marcio Mazzucato for doing the accepted answer one better on How do I emulate a 403 error page ?. Want a preview? Here are some great quotes from this episode: “ The human transformation of getting off of this computer ...
Dec 13, 2024•28 min•Ep. 764
NightVision offers web and API security testing tools built to integrate with developers’ established workflows. NightVision identifies issues by precise area(s) of code, so devs don’t have to chase down and validate vulnerability reports, a process that eats up precious engineering resources. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kinnaird on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Cecil Curry earned a Populist badge with their exceptionally thoughtful answer to In Python how can one tell if a modul...
Dec 10, 2024•22 min•Ep. 763
Instabug helps developers monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues throughout the mobile app development lifecycle. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kenny on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user itoctopus earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Break huge URLs so they don't overflow . Some great excerpts from today’s episode: On why they built a lean, mean SDK: “Nowadays mobile developers spend a lot of time thinking about SDK bloat and how much they're taxing the...
Dec 06, 2024•25 min•Ep. 762
Tabnine is an AI code assistant that offers AI tools for code generation, testing, and code review. Eran was previously a researcher at IBM, where he worked on IBM Watson . Connect with Eran on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Anders earned a Populist badge with their first-class answer to How to detect the current screen resolution? ....
Dec 03, 2024•29 min•Ep. 761
Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird , a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog . Find Fabrizio’s blog here . Some reading suggestions: What docs as code really means How I'm using AI as a technical writer Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means) Find Fabrizio on LinkedIn or GitHub ....
Nov 26, 2024•23 min•Ep. 760
Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization with a long history of protecting consumers’ rights and advocating for changes that make them safer. Connect with Sukhi on LinkedIn or via her website . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Martijn Pieters , who’s earned over a million reputation by delivering wisdom to questions like Runtime of python's if substring ...
Nov 22, 2024•26 min•Ep. 759
Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch , a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss the tricks they use to keep up with all the latest languages and frameworks. Your host, Kyle Mitofsky, ...
Nov 21, 2024•33 min•Ep. 758
Moderne is an open-source company building automated source code transformations for framework migrations, vulnerability patches, and API migrations. Explore the platform here . OpenRewrite is a community-driven open source project that consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks. Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn . Props to Stack Overflow user Benjamin Atkin , who earned a Popul...
Nov 19, 2024•27 min•Ep. 757
Chris works at Sledgehammer Games (a division of Activision), which develops titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Explore their open roles here . Want to see Chris’s engine in action? Check out COD: Modern Warfare III . Connect with Chris on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user teh.fonsi , who earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to execute 1 command x times in java ....
Nov 15, 2024•22 min•Ep. 756
Clarifai is a developer-friendly AI workflow orchestration platform built to help devs integrate AI into technical workflows and customer experiences. We’ve written about best practices for integrating AI tools into your workflows . Connect with Matt on LinkedIn or via his website . You can also read his posts on the Clarifai blog. Well-deserved congrats to Stack Overflow user Jay Wick , who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Get image preview before uploading in React ....
Nov 12, 2024•35 min•Ep. 755
Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data , a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers can get started with their docs here . ICYMI, read our blog post about the knowledge-as-a-service business model and how it will guide the future of our paid platform. AI answers alone aren’t knowledge. Connect with Or on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user guizo earned a Populist badge by explaining How can I minify JSON in a shell script? ....
Nov 08, 2024•34 min•Ep. 754
Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio , the fastest way for devs to get started with the Gemini API . Logan’s team just rolled out Grounding with Google Search, a feature built to help developers get fresher, more accurate responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. Learn more here . Connect with Logan on LinkedIn . Props to Stack Overflow user Jonik , who earned a Populist badge by explaining How ...
Nov 05, 2024•26 min•Ep. 753
Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it. Vercel is a native Next.js platform. v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here . Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI . Connect with Tom on LinkedIn or X . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Sodruldeen Mustapha , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to remove the environment v...
Nov 01, 2024•25 min•Ep. 752
Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit the Fastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started. You can find Sunny Patel on LinkedIn and on GitHub . Find Kyle Prinsloo on X and on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner M.M who provided an answer to What does the "Expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction" error mean?...
Oct 30, 2024•31 min•Ep. 751
Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI. Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs . Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn or X . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript? ....
Oct 29, 2024•23 min•Ep. 750
The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models. Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in ...
Oct 25, 2024•31 min•Ep. 749
Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn . Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code. Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams . Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by expla...
Oct 22, 2024•29 min•Ep. 748
Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. Follow Solo.io on X or LinkedIn or dig into the docs . Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog. Connect with Keith on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind : their helpful answer to the question – How to run jq from gitbash in windows? – has been viewed by more than 213,...
Oct 18, 2024•24 min•Ep. 747
Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X . Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn . To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website . Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity ?...
Oct 16, 2024•20 min•Ep. 746
Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog . We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. Connect with Austin on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List ? , a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people....
Oct 15, 2024•26 min•Ep. 745
Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle control. They’re hiring ! Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user user3330840 won a Lifeboat badge for their answer to My commits appear as another user in GitHub? ....
Oct 11, 2024•21 min•Ep. 744