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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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00:32:13

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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00:32:33

The fastest agent in the race has the best evals

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. Episode notes: Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-designed LPU, the first chip built for inference. Check out their agent, Compound, which can search the web and run code. Connect with Benjamin on LinkedIn

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00:23:59

One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed?...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Discover how leveraging an intelligent, community-driven knowledge layer is the key to grounding probabilistic tools, preventing AI hallucination, and validating high-quality code.

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00:32:38

AI code means more critical thinking, not less

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/11

Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, the future of developer training as AI coding assistants become more popular, and the importance of critical thinking—especially for junior developers—in the age of AI.Episode notes: Secure Code Warrior upskills development teams to help companies stay protected against potential cybersecurity threats. Connect with Matias on Linkedin. Shoutout to

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00:31:42

Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control.Episode notes: New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run software. Read their 2025 observability forecast. Connect with Nic on Linkedin or email him at nic@newrelic.com. Congratulations to user Yochai Timmer for

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00:28:26

To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/11/04

Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code.Episode notes: Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on code changes, fix CI failures, and improve your PRs right from your PR page. Connect with Greg on LinkedIn and keep up with Graphite on their

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00:26:45

Vibe coding needs a spec, too

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/31

Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. Episode notes: Kiro is AWS’ AI IDE that brings structure to AI coding with spec-driven development. Connect with Deepak on the Kiro Discord server

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00:27:50

Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/28

Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI.Episode notes: Linear is a tool for planning and building products that streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps. Connect with Tom on Twitter. This episode’s shoutout goes to user ozz, who won a

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00:24:55

Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/24

Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world.Episode notes: Resolve AI is building agents to help you troubleshoot alerts, manage incidents, and run your production systems. Connect with Spiros on Linkedin or email him at spiros@resolve.ai. Congrats to

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00:31:16

What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/23

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Product Suite at Stack Overflow, unpack the key takeaways from the 2025 Developer Survey for tech and business leaders. The discussion focuses on the evolving developer relationship with AI, the continued struggle with tool sprawl, and actionable recommendations for leaders looking to deliver value and improve developer experience.The discussion covers

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00:26:28

Open source is giving you choices with your agent...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/21

Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosystem healthy, the challenges OS communities have faced with the rise of AI, and the implications of data privacy and user choice in the age of multi-agent AI systems. Episode notes: Mozilla.ai is building the agent platform that helps organizations safely automate real work with AI agents. Connect with John on Linkedin or email him at

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00:29:03

Why rent a cloud when you can build one?

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible. Episode notes: Cozystack is a Kubernetes-based framework for building a private cloud environment. Connect with Andrei on Linkedin. Today’s shoutout goes to user Adam for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Regex replace text but exclude when text

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00:34:43

AI agents for your digital chores

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people interact with advertisements and the web as a whole, and the challenges that proactive AI agents may face when being integrated into workflows and personal internet use. Episode notes: Yutori is building AI agents that can reliably handle everyday digital tasks on your behalf on the web. Connect with Dhruv via his website. Congrats to the winner of

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00:27:08

Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/10

Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities.Episode notes: Vite is a frontend build tool powering the next generation of web applications. Check out all of the work Evan is doing at his company

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00:28:15

Context is king for secure, AI-generated code

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/07

Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI. Episode notes: Endor Labs is AppSec for the software development revolution, helping you pinpoint critical risks whether your code is written by a human

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00:26:21

One is not the loneliest number for API calls

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/03

Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities of and need for data normalization, and the role that AI and MCP plays in the future of API functionality. Episode notes: Merge connects you to any third-party system for fast, secure integrations for your products and agents. Connect with Gil on LinkedIn and X. Shoutout to user Abhijit for winning a Lifeboat badge on their answer for Complex

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00:20:29

Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and...

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/10/02

Learn how to successfully navigate AI adoption in engineering teams.

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00:28:19

As your AI gets smarter, so must your API

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/09/30

Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new standard for agents, the importance of observability and security in AI systems, and the importance for businesses and entrepreneurs to leverage opportunities in the agentic AI space now. Episode notes: Kong is an all-in-one API platform for AI and agentic workflows. Marco previously joined the podcast in 2024. Connect with Marco on

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00:26:35

Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience

The Stack Overflow Podcast ·

2025/09/26

Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impact of AI on dev experience, and how Spotify approaches platform engineering and standardization to help teams solve for specific needs. Episode notes: Backstage is an open-source IDP by Spotify that reduces everyday friction, cognitive overhead, and operational toil for developers. We previously talked to the Backstage team in 2022. Poor Ryan. If

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