
The Stack Overflow Podcast
For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a software developer and how the art and practice of programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, join the Stack home team for conversations with fascinating guests to help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed.
Latest episodes

Oct 29, 2024 • 23min
How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.
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 25, 2024 • 31min
Tragedy of the (data) commons
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 Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.Connect with Shayne via his website.Connect with Robert via his website or on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user George Hawkins earned a Populist badge by explaining How to get base url in angular 5?.

Oct 22, 2024 • 29min
The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
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 explaining How to access the appsettings in Blazor WebAssembly.

Oct 18, 2024 • 24min
How API security is evolving for the GenAI era
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 213,000 people and won a Populist badge.

Oct 16, 2024 • 20min
The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers
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 15, 2024 • 26min
What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability
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 11, 2024 • 21min
Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations
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 8, 2024 • 29min
Think you don’t need observability? Think again
Memento is a real-time data platform designed to help developers ship better products faster. Explore the platform here or get started in the docs. Connect with Daniela on LinkedIn and follow Momento on X.Stack Overflow user Simon Juhl won a Lifeboat badge for dropping some knowledge on HTMLCSS change Date input highlight color.

Oct 4, 2024 • 21min
Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering
You can find Crystal on LinkedIn.You can learn more about FSH Tech here.Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for answering the question: How do I create a map with key and value in one line in Java?

Oct 1, 2024 • 27min
A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
You can find David on LinkedIn.You can learn more about Arcjet here.You can subscribe to to the console.dev newsletter and podcast here.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill who earned a Populist badge for his answer to the question: What’s a good tool to determine the lowest version of Python required? Greg is getting close to the magic one million rep mark!