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The Stack Overflow Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast

For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ceora Ford, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things code.

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00:31:34

The messy truth of your AI strategies

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/04/10

Ryan welcomes Hema Raghavan, co-founder and head of engineering at Kumo.ai, to dive into all the messy stuff that comes with implementing AI, from pipeline sprawl to shadow AI. They discuss governance approaches like deploying models inside approved platforms and routing calls through monitored gateways, and how broken pipelines from complex feature-engineering motivated Kumo.ai’s approach of using a single foundation model with on-the-fly database queries. Episode notes: Kumo.ai allows you to

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00:33:05

He designed C++ to solve your code problems

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/04/07

Ryan welcomes Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++ and professor at Columbia, to the show to dive into all things C++, from its history to where it's going today. They discuss its first emergence as a way to bridge high-level abstractions with low-level systems control, the criticisms some have around memory safety and null pointers (and how to solve these problems in your code), and why “move to Rust” thinking is too simplistic for modern codebases. Episode notes: Keep up with everything

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00:28:52

Seizing the means of messenger production

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/04/03

Ryan sits down with Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, to chat about calm computing and how humans can take back ownership of their data and digital world. They discuss the early internet’s evolution from individual creativity into today’s internet that turns users into products, Galen’s takeaways from building a new network architecture that prioritizes user control, and why messenger applications are ripe for decentralization. Episode notes: Tlon is releasing a decentralized messenger app that

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00:30:18

How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/31

Ryan hosts SmartBear’s VP of AI and Architecture Fitz Nowlan to explore how we’re moving away from old assumptions about software development, the challenges of testing MCP servers as LLM-driven agents introduce non-determinism that breaks tradition, and how data locality and data construction are becoming more valuable when source code is so easy to generate.Episode notes: SmartBear gives devs tools for application performance monitoring, software development, software testing, and API

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00:25:11

Prevent agentic identity theft

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/27

Ryan is joined by Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, to discuss the security challenges local agents present, how enterprises can create robust governance of credentials through zero-knowledge architecture, and the implications of agent intent and misuse in a world where AI agents are becoming more and more integrated into everyday applications.Episode notes: 1Password keeps your credentials secure through end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and more. Read their latest white paper on

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00:30:00

Multi-stage attacks are the Final Fantasy bosses of...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/24

Ryan welcomes Gee Rittenhouse, VP of Security at AWS, to the show to discuss the complexities of multi-stage attacks in cybersecurity and how these attacks unfold, the challenges in detecting them, and the evolving role of AI in both enhancing security and creating new vulnerabilities. Episode notes: AWS Security Hub is expanding to unify your cloud security options. Learn more about how AWS is keeping your cloud safe on their website. Connect with Gee on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user James

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00:32:49

After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/20

Ryan is joined by Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the HumanX Conference, for a conversation on how AI has evolved in the last year. They discuss whether “the year of the agent” came to fruition, why companies are moving away from AGI, and the major blockers for AI adoption, from distrust in non-deterministic systems to enterprise data-readiness. Episode notes: HumanX 2026, one of the biggest AI conferences of the year, is happening in San Francisco from April 6-9. Listen to our episodes

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00:00:29

Building a global engineering team (plus AI agents)...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/19

How Netlify built a global engineering team

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00:29:06

Keeping the lights on for open source

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/17

Ryan sits down with Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc to chat about how his team is keeping the foundation of the internet—open source projects—alive by forking archived but widely-used repos to provide security maintenance and dependency upgrades. They also discuss open source’s sustainability problems when it comes to funding, security, and maintainer burnout, and how trusted stewardship can reduce risk when maintainers step away.Episode notes: Chainguard provides secure-by-default open source

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00:30:38

Open source for awkward robots

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/13

Ryan is joined by Jan Liphardt, CEO and co-founder of OpenMind, to chat about the rapidly evolving world of humanoid robotics and what it means for humans, why OpenMind is building an open source operating system for robots that processes logic in natural language, and how putting Asimov’s Laws on the blockchain might be the key to robotics guardrails. Episode notes: OpenMind’s OM1 is an open source OS for robots that allows robots to perceive, adapt, and act within human environments. Connect

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00:26:53

Even the chip makers are making LLMs

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/10

Ryan welcomes Kari Briski, NVIDIA’s VP of Generative AI Software for Enterprise, to the show to explore how a chip manufacturer got into the model development game. They discuss NVIDIA’s co-design feedback loop between model builders and hardware architects, share insights on precision model training and memory management systems, and take a look at the roadmap and development of NVIDIA’s fully open-source Nemotron. Episode notes: Nemotron is a family of open models with open weights, training

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00:24:28

Building brains for bulldozers

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/06

Ryan chats with Kevin Peterson, CTO of Bedrock Robotics, about the evolution of self-driving technology and why robotics is now advancing; how real data is still relevant but simulation becomes essential for scale; and the future of robotics in addressing labor shortages and enhancing productivity.Episode notes: Bedrock Robotics creates technology that upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling autonomous operation for construction machinery. Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn and

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00:27:12

AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/04

SPONSORED BY DOCKERIn this sponsored episode, Ryan chats with Mark Cavage, President and COO of Docker, joins the show to dive into hardened containers and agent sandboxes. They discuss what it means for a container to be hardened, how agents are starting to look a lot like microservices, and where containers fit into agentic workflows now and in the future. Episode notes Docker Hardened Images are minimal and secure containers. They’re free and available for most applications in the Docker

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00:31:19

No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/03/02

Ryan sits down with Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic and Model Context Protocol co-creator David Soria Parra to talk the evolution of MCP from local-only to remote connectivity, how security and privacy fit into their work with OAuth2 for authentication and authorization, and how they’re keeping MCP completely open-source and widely available by moving it to the Linux Foundation. Episode notes: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to

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00:28:14

To live in an AI world, knowing is half the battle

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2026/02/27

Ryan welcomes Marcus Fontoura, technical fellow at Microsoft and author of Human Agency in the Digital World, to discuss the intersection of technology, society, and human dignity in a digital-first world. They chat about the non-determinism of social media algorithms, the need for balance between efficiency and human dignity in technology, and the role that trust plays in AI. Episode notes: Human Agency in the Digital World is an “AI-era self-help book” about reclaiming our role as pilots—not

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00:32:24

Dogfood so nutritious it’s building the future of SDLCs

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/02/24

Ryan welcomes Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead on Codex, to discuss how the Codex team dogfoods Codex to build Codex, what distinguishes an agentic coding tool from a chat-based code assistant, and why they’re focusing on a safe and secure agentic SDLC rather than just code generation.Episode notes: Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer. Try it now with your Free or Go ChatGPT plan. You can keep up with everything happening at OpenAI on their

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00:26:54

Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/02/20

Ryan is joined by Philippe Saade, the AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, to dive into the Wikidata Embedding Project and how their team vectorized 30 million of Wikidata’s 119 million entries for semantic search. They discuss how this project helped offload the burden that scraping was creating for their sites, what Wikimedia.DE is doing to maintain data integrity for their entries, and the importance of user feedback even as they work to bring Wikipedia’s vast knowledge to people building

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00:19:56

Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/02/19

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang sit down with Cloudflare VP Will Allen to discuss the innovative pay-per-crawl model co-launched by their organizations.

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00:40:29

Data is the new oil, and your database is the only...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/02/17

Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive portfolio that includes SQL Server, CosmosDB, and Postgres; and the challenges that come with database architecture, from the importance of cost governance and multi-cloud strategies to the future of databases when it comes to AI.Episode notes: You can read all about the latest Azure database announcements from Microsoft Ignite—including updates for

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00:35:07

Even your voice is a data problem

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/02/13

Recorded last December at AWS re:Invent, Ryan welcomes CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, Scott Stephenson, for a conversation on advancing voice AI technology. They cover how Deepgram is improving speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities using deep learning to take on challenges posed by dialects and noisy environments and the moral and ethical considerations voice AI companies have to make when it comes to voice cloning and synthetic data training. Episode notes: Deepgram builds accurate,

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