A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
Stack Overflow Blogby Chase W. Hughes9h ago
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top 57%Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer
Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal1d ago
The most important number an agent produces isn’t its answer — it’s how sure it is. Compose that number from independent signals, check it’s calibrated, grade the high-stakes calls with a second...
Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift
Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal1d ago
If you can deploy a prompt change without an eval failing the build, you don’t have evals — you have a notebook. And once the gate is green, the slow leaks are still coming for you.
Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal1d ago
The trick to putting LLM agents in high-stakes systems isn’t a smarter model — it’s containing the model to one node so the rest of the system is ordinary, testable code.
The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
Stack Overflow Blogby Ryan Donovan2d ago
With fall upon us, it’s time to pumpkin spice up your life with the tasty results of the 2026 Developer Survey.
A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
Stack Overflow Blogby Erin Yepis7d ago
We are on the precipice of brand new results from the 2026 Developer Survey. We have 15 years of data and insights from this survey at our fingertips that shows more than just what one year’s...
Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.
Stack Overflow Blogby Alex Lato, Peter O'Connor8d ago
Imagine a customer asks whether your product supports their use case and how it handles their data. You check the enablement page. It says yes.
Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal
Stack Overflow Blogby Caroline Thomas8d ago
While most platforms stick to storing or retrieving your content, Stack Internal helps you and your AI agents make higher quality decisions by delivering knowledge that is context-aware, vetted by...
Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings
Stack Overflow Blogby Erin Yepis8d ago
We are on the precipice of brand new results from the 2026 Developer Survey. We have 15 years of data and insights from this survey at our fingertips that shows more than just what one year’s...
Why model versioning is not enough for production AI
Stack Overflow Blogby Silu Panda10d ago
Imagine a documentation assistant that starts timing out after a routine retrieval change. The model is the same. The service is healthy. Every deployment check passed.
From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor, David Gibson23d ago
It’s been three months since we launched Stack Overflow for Agents, an API-first knowledge exchange for agents, and we’ve learned a lot in that time.
(Re)introducing Developer Story
Stack Overflow Blogby Philippe Beaudette28d ago
I won’t bury the good news here: Stack Overflow is bringing back the Developer Story. Time for a short history lesson: once upon a time, we had a feature called Developer Story (“Dev Story”)—think...
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
Stack Overflow Blogby Carrie Koos3 Sept 2026
To build an enterprise AI strategy that scales, teams need an organizational memory they can trust.
The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May3 Sept 2026
In this episode, Stack Overflow Director of Platform Engineering Peter O'Connor continues his conversation with Andi Gutmans, this time digging into what changes when you're running dozens or...
Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization
Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor25 Aug 2026
Praveen explains why his team moved off GraphRAG in favor of a tree-structured memory for faster incremental updates and how they balance retrieval freshness, latency budgets, and access control at...
Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design
Stack Overflow Blogby Dr. Gleb Tsipursky24 Aug 2026
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Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
Stack Overflow Blogby Markus Eisele21 Aug 2026
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 Lumina20 Aug 2026
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 Ishanzai20 Aug 2026
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 May20 Aug 2026
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...