
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

Mar 12, 2024 • 25min
How Stack Overflow is partnering with Google to encourage socially responsible AI
Stack Overflow has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop an API—Overflow API—to give Gemini, Google’s AI model, access to Stack Overflow knowledge communities. Learn how Ryan’s team is working toward socially responsible AI.Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn.Stack Overflow user verygoodsoftwarenotvirus earned a Great Question badge by asking something at least 87,000 people have also wondered: How can I get all keys from a JSON column in Postgres?.

Mar 8, 2024 • 31min
A leading ML educator on what you need to know about LLMs
Check out Maxime’s three-part LLM course. Part 1 “covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks.Part 2 “focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques."Part 3 “focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.” Read Maxime’s blog.Follow Maxime on GitHub or LinkedIn.Nikhil Wagh earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining how to Efficiently compare two sets in Python.

Mar 7, 2024 • 20min
Building GenAI features in practice with Intuit Mailchimp
Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. If you want to try out generative AI in MailChimp, sign up here. Learn more about Intuit technology here.Many thanks (and a Lifeboat badge) to Dherik for dropping an answer on cURL: how can I return 0 if status is 200?Connect with Shivang on LinkedIn.

Mar 5, 2024 • 19min
Chunking express: An expert breaks down how to build your RAG system
Build GenAI applications faster and cheaper with a vector database like Pinecone.New to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other GenAI topics? Our guide is a good place to start.Learn more about RAG and Pinecone.Connect with Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn.

Mar 1, 2024 • 19min
It’s RAG time for LLMs that need a source of truth
Pinecone is a vector database that lets companies build GenAI applications faster for less cost.Read our primer on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or explore RAG and Pinecone.Follow Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn.If you need a handy guide to what’s what in the AI space, check out Stack Overflow’s Industry Guide to AI.

Feb 28, 2024 • 26min
Optimizing both hardware and software for GenAI
SPONSORED BY INTEL Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. Bonus: what’s the difference between a GPU optimized for graphics and a VPU or NPU optimized for AI? Episode notes If you’re interested in trying any of the demos that Raymond talked about, check out Intel’s OpenVINO notebooks. Learn more about Intel’s Edge AI resources here. Raymond previously wrote about enhancing image and video resolution using OpenVINO. You can reach out to Raymond Lo on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, Andrey Korneyev, for saving the question, How can I delete specific nodes from an XElement?

Feb 27, 2024 • 34min
How to convince your CTO it's worth paying down tech debt
Sema’s AI code monitor helps companies manage the risks and capture the benefits of AI in the software development lifecycle. Learn how it works here.Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.Erstwhile podcast cohost Cassidy Williams is the CTO of Contenda. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jim, who earned a Stellar Question badge with Docker cannot start on Windows, a question (well, more of a statement) that’s helped 1.1 million people and counting.

Feb 23, 2024 • 18min
Down the rabbit hole in the Stack Exchange network
Discussions are now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow. Check out this one about why people keep proclaiming the death of PHP or this one on whether Jenkins is still the dominant player in the CI/CD space.What would happen if you suddenly lost consciousness? The Philosophy Stack Exchange has thoughts.Did knights wear glasses? Historical records don’t really answer this question, but the History Stack Exchange does.The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has deemed AI-generated robocalls illegal.

Feb 20, 2024 • 23min
Who owns this tool? A software component catalog to help devs find answers
Andrew has worked in many roles, including as Executive Manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he established and grew a platform engineering function that supported 7,000 engineers.You can find him on LinkedIn here.You can learn more about Compass, a developer experience platform, here.Shout to Amelio for earning a stellar question badge and helping over six hundred thousand people with this gem: Getting the name of a variable as a string

Feb 16, 2024 • 26min
Would you trust an AI bot to find the fix for vulnerabilities in your code?
Mobb offers AI-powered technology that automates vulnerability remediations with a goal of helping development teams significantly reduce their security backlogs and free up more time for innovation. Check out their blog or dive into their docs.Connect with Eitan on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Konrad, who won a Stellar Question badge for What is the difference between private and protected members of C++ classes?.