Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
Stack Overflow Blogby Markus Eisele·3d ago
I keep seeing the same idea in conversations about agents: Detailed specs are old-world overhead now. Give the model a rough goal, let it explore, fix what comes back, move on.
AI Won't Replace Project Managers, But It is Reshaping How Work Gets Done
Stack Overflow Blogby Emim Vigin Lumina·3d ago
In the early days of software engineering, project management was synonymous with the "Gantt chart warrior", someone whose primary value was the manual tracking of dependencies and the rhythmic...
Quantum-Augmented Applications: Integrating Quantum Subroutines into Classical Software Stacks
Stack Overflow Blogby Dr. Ahmad Mateen Ishanzai·3d ago
In classical high-performance computing, specialized hardware offloading—such as utilizing GPUs for parallel tensor ops or NPUs for local inference—is standard architecture.
From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)
Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May·4d ago
In this episode, Eira May and Stack Overflow Director of Platform Engineering Peter O'Connor talk with Andi Gutmans about the throughline between democratizing web development with PHP and...
No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor·9d ago
Phoebe Sajor: Hi Doug, Hi Ash, thank you for joining me for this No Dumb Questions. To start—what exactly is context architecture in AI and why do we care?
Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer
Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May·19d ago
There’s one in every engineering org: the person who picked up a coding agent first and started leaving everyone else in the dust.
Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth
Stack Overflow Blogby Jeremy Arendt·24d ago
Every data leader has a version of this story. A regulatory audit surfaces a metric that doesn’t match across systems.
Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor, Caroline Thomas·25d ago
You’ve spent years building valuable knowledge for your organization—the kind of specific data that makes or breaks the daily work of your teams.
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
Stack Overflow Blogby Ryan Donovan·26d ago
About six years ago, we ran a piece about IDEs where the gist was that IDEs were getting to be so powerful and capable that it was a marvel that anybody used Vim or Emacs like a caveman.
No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor·24 Jul 2026
Welcome to the latest installment of No Dumb Questions, the series where Stack Overflow’s least technical writer asks technical staff the simple questions people are too afraid to ask.
How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook?
Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May·2 Jul 2026
Vivek explains how Snowflake systematically rolled out coding agents across its engineering org — starting with unrestricted experimentation, then codifying what worked into a shared vocabulary of...
Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor·30 Jun 2026
Yobi is a behavioral AI company building foundation models that predict future behavior for ad tech, marketing, and more. Connect with Frank via fportman.com or at yobi.ai.
Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
Stack Overflow Blogby Charity Majors·26 Jun 2026
Q: Paging Charity! Our industry tends to espouse the value of collaboration, but then places on pedestals the worst models of authoritarian leadership.
Your AI shipped a backend that boots. That is the whole problem.
Stack Overflow Blogby Devlin Duldulao·23 Jun 2026
I have been writing fullstack apps for about ten years now. I am Filipino, I live in Norway, and the only thing that changes between summer and winter here is the lighting in the room where I...
The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!
Stack Overflow Blogby Ryan Donovan·23 Jun 2026
Hey there, humans who code, how are you all doing? We’ve been asking this question (with far more words and details) for fifteen years now, and every year, how and what software builders do...
Dispatches from O'Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities
Stack Overflow Blogby Artur Huk·19 Jun 2026
[Ed. note: This article was originally published on O’Reilly Media’s blog, Radar.] Human-in-the-loop becomes an operational bottleneck In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I...
The new bottleneck
Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May·18 Jun 2026
Let’s say your engineering team does everything right: navigates the universe of AI coding tools, chooses the ones that fit best, gets everyone set up and aligned, and watches individual...
AI agents are a confused deputy with the keys to your kingdom
Stack Overflow Blogby Fabio Salvadori·17 Jun 2026
Earlier in June, attackers took control of more than twenty thousand Instagram accounts, including the dormant Obama-era White House account, without writing an exploit or guessing a single...
Designing CherryScript: Optimizing Data-Driven Workflows via Custom Python-Based Interpreters
Stack Overflow Blogby Dr. Ahmad Mateen Ishanzai·12 Jun 2026
Question I am currently developing a custom programming language called CherryScript, which is architected primarily to optimize, abstract, and streamline high-volume, data-driven workflows.
Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground?
Stack Overflow Blogby Charity Majors·12 Jun 2026
Hi Charity, I'm a senior staff engineer, and I’m wondering what advice you might have for a person in my role in a large company to affect priorities and the speed at which work is "expected" to be...
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