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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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00:28:58

How AWS re:Invented the cloud

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/16

From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonomous agents will ease developers' operational burdens.Episode notes: This episode was recorded live at AWS re:Invent. Listen to our other episodes from the floor with the Stack Overflow team and Corey Quinn. Keep up with

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00:41:07

Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/15

Learn how IBM deployed and integrated AI tools in the ultimate enterprise environment.

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00:35:13

Vibe code anything in a Hanselminute

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/13

Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding. They cover the ways it can really improve the software development lifecycle, the importance of keeping human judgement in software so developers can truly understand their code, and how AI can be leveraged as a learning tool…like when Scott vibe coded a simple app over lunch. Episode notes: Scott last sat down with us in 2017 to discuss his journey into

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00:29:57

Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/09

Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, their new tool, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future holds for personalized user experiences in ecommerce. Episode notes: We spoke with Shopify about how they’re building developer-focused AI products

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00:29:03

You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/07

SPONSORED BY MONGODBPete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to talk about a recent OpenAI paper on the impact that AI will have on jobs and overall GDP. Pete, who reads the papers (and datasets) so you don’t have to, says that looking at AI’s impact as a job killer is a flawed metric. Instead, he and Ryan talk about how AI will be a collaborator for actual human workers, how embeddings and vectorization will move the productivity needle, and the five

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00:23:27

Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/06

Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites. Episode notes: Akamai is a CDN, full-stack cloud computing, and cybersecurity company that keeps experiences closer to users and threats further away using the world’s most distributed compute platform. Connect with Robert on

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00:29:24

The most dangerous shortcuts in software

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2026/01/02

Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Episode notes: LaunchDarkly is a feature management and experimentation platform that allows you to decouple software feature rollouts from code deployment so you can

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00:33:40

How AI is helping us build better communities

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/30

MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities. Ryan and Sandy dive into the findings from Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, the ethical implications of rapidly advancing technology, and AI’s potential to foster community dialogue and decision-making. Episode notes: Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age

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00:31:51

Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/26

Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems. Episode notes: Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking so you can run applications and manage data across on-premises datacenters, public clouds, and edge locations all on one

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00:37:31

Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/23

Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather the normal next step in computing’s evolution. They explore the importance of democratizing access to technology, the unique challenges that LLMs’ non-determinism poses, and how developers can keep Stack Overflow’s ethos of community alive in a world of AI. Episode notes: Anil is a tech entrepreneur (former CEO at our sister company Fog Creek

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00:23:01

Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/19

Ryan sits down with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, at AWS re:Invent to get Corey’s patented snarky take on all the happenings from the conference. They discuss whether the AI agent hype is supported by actual buyers, how startups are faring as AWS focuses on large enterprises, and how many of the new technologies coming out this year will actually be transformative. Episode notes: This episode was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025! Check out Ryan’s recap of events on our

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00:31:35

Live from re:Invent…it’s Stack Overflow!

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/16

Ryan is joined by Stack Overflow’s CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree on the floor at re:Invent to discuss all they’ve seen and heard at the event, from the future of AI agents to the trust issues the enterprise has around AI and the impact of AI and robotics on the job market.Episode Notes: This episode was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025! Check out Ryan’s recap of events from the floor on our blog. Connect with Prashanth on LinkedIn. Connect with Michael on

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00:24:28

Interface is everything, and everything is an interface

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/12

Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure that UI generated on the fly would put on your backend systems, and why AI is just the latest and fanciest in a long line of CRUD apps. Episode notes: Metalab designs interfaces for top brands around the world, helping them design, build, and ship their products. Connect with Wesley on Twitter and LinkedIn. Congrats to Populist badge winner SiddAjmera, who won the badge for

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00:34:54

AI is a crystal ball into your codebase

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/09

Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Microscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the need for humans-in-the-loop for reviewing PRs so AI tools can efficiently and effectively debug, and how AI can increase visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level and high signal-to-noise ratio code reviews.Episode notes: Macroscope helps you understand your code through AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and

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00:35:31

Treating your agents like microservices

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/05

Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices, the challenges and limitations of the infrastructure for these multi-agent systems, and the importance of communication protocols and interoperability in order to build decentralized and scalable architectures. Episode notes: Outshift is Cisco’s tech incubator that pursues emerging technologies like agentic AI, quantum computing, and next-gen

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00:24:38

Abstraction, but for robots

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/12/02

Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance of abstraction layers in making robotics more accessible, and the real-world applications of robotics from lobster traps to industrial sanding robots.Episode notes: Viam is a robotics platform that brings modern software development tools into hardware applications. Connect with Simone on Linkedin. This week’s shoutout goes to Lifejacket winner

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00:21:30

Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/28

Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity. They discuss how Rainstick mimics natural thunderstorms to create electric fields and frequencies that promote plant growth, challenges and breakthroughs in their research, and their participation in the AWS Compute for Climate Fellowship.Episode notes: Rainstick uses electricity to mimic the natural effects

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00:26:14

You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/25

Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies. Episode notes: Mithril’s omnicloud platform aggregates and orchestrates multi-cloud GPUs, CPUs, and storage so you can access your infrastructure through a single platform. Connect with Jared on Twitter and

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00:32:13

Only you can stop AI database drops

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants.Episode notes: Retool is an enterprise AI AppGen platform for internal software development, allowing you to create apps, agents, and workflows with any LLM, datasource, or API. David Hsu

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00:27:07

How to create agents that people actually want to use

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/18

Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency.Episode notes: monday.com is a work management platform that allows you to plan and execute work across departments with a unified, AI-first product suite. Connect with Assaf on LinkedIn and Twitter. Congrats to Populist

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