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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubOh, your agents need OAuth2, too Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the…

11.03
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubIt’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead…

10.30

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubA JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer The AI governance argument is happening one layer above the code that actually stops your agent.

10.28
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubRumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern…

10.23
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubThe Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

10.22
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubIs AI really reshaping the developer market? Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

10.22

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubSurvey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs.

10.21
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubDon't forget about the UI for AI Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified…

10.20

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubProduction-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.

10.19
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubAI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, how Quint brings…

10.16
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubMCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

10.15

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubWhy your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could) Most engineering teams capable of building an internal AI knowledge system think they should. But six months later, it's a platform team's full-time job.

10.15
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubKeep calm and call clone with Rust Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection…

10.13

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubBeyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.

10.12

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubA Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

10.09
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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubTaking a look under your agent’s hood Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and…

10.09

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubPart 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality.

10.08

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubA green exit code is not evidence that the work happened Agents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape.

10.08

Stack Overflow BlogGitHubPart 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

10.07