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The Stack Overflow Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast
Artificial Intelligence
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For well over a decade, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software engineering is changing our world. From creating code to running it in production, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ryan Donovan, the Stack Overflow ... more

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Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI agents.

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Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app interactions.

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Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down ... more

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In this episode, Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats. They discuss how most interactions with coding agents become silo... more

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Recent Guests

Rob Seaman
GM of Slack
Slack
Episode: Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
Anush Elangovan
VP of Software at AMD
AMD
Episode: Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media
Episode: The AI magic words
Kevin Frazier
Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law
University of Texas School of Law
Episode: AI, JD, and other letters of the law
Sam Curry
Chief Information Security Officer, Zscaler
Zscaler
Episode: AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game
Markus Eisele
Developer Advocate at IBM
IBM
Episode: Java’s age is its AI superpower
Srini Venkatesan
CTO of PayPal
PayPal
Episode: Scaling your money safely with AI
Greg Jennings
VP of Engineering for AI Products
Anaconda
Episode: How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
Tim Lindholm
Early contributor to the Java language
Oak Team / Sun Microsystems
Episode: The good ol’ days of building Java

Host

Ryan Donovan
Host of The Stack Overflow Podcast, focused on software engineering, developer tooling, and tech leadership.

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 477 ratings
  • Great podcast ✅

    Thank you!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    awise111
    United States8 months ago
  • Topics great, sound quality?

    I can’t understand how the sound quality is so bad from a company like Stack Overflow. Half the time the host sounds like he’s underwater. Otherwise amazing 😆

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Wilburforce One
    United Kingdom9 months ago
  • Owner

    AshishkumarPravinbhaiPatel PVT LTD .

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    AshishkumarPravinbhaiPatel
    Australia2 years ago
  • Audio quality lousy

    Had a leave this review as I do not want to put up with bad audio quality. I am referring to the ‘developer skill you don’t want to neglect’ in Jan 2025 episode. Please respect your listeners and do something about it as your content is great.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    Audiophile7890
    Singapore2 years ago
  • One of the best sotfware engineering podcasts

    If you are software engineer and you don’t know or use stack overflow probably you are living under a rock :). In terms of this podcast, Ben, Ryan and Era do a fantastic job. The audio quality is above par, the length of the episodes 25-30 mins is just right not too short and not too long.

    The types of content covered is also great, from companies (sometimes might feel a bit salesy but still good) and individuals who have done the work in the weeds is great to listen to. Keep up the great work!... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Geshan Manandhar
    Australia2 years ago

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Recent episodes balance enterprise AI strategy with core software development topics.
Guests are tech-forward and bring practical, hands-on insights.
Guests tend to be leaders or senior experts in engineering and AI.
Sound quality is a frequent point of critique; focus on content quality.

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Talking Points

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Java’s age is its AI superpower
Q: What are practical steps to modernize a legacy Java project for AI agents without breaking production?
Adopt a structured modernization approach: start with a specification-driven plan, use static rewriting tools like OpenRewrite to introduce idiomatic patterns, and employ workflow-driven processes that include continuous testing, security checks, and guardrails to ensure changes are traceable and safe.
Java’s age is its AI superpower
Q: How do harnesses and workflows influence the safe deployment of agentic Java?
Harnesses provide the operational backbone—defining workflows, visibility, and steps such as vulnerability scanning, testing strategies, and documentation generation—so agents can act within clear, auditable boundaries and not drift off rails during code modernization or task execution.
Java’s age is its AI superpower
Q: What makes Java especially well-suited for agentic engineering in the enterprise?
Java's long presence in enterprise systems, its strong typing, mature ecosystem, and comprehensive tooling make it a reliable base for AI agents to train on and generate against. The openness of OpenJDK and the evolution of frameworks like Quarkus and Spring further support safe, scalable integration with AI workflows.
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Q: So how does it stop an AI agent from taking an action?
Policies can be written in Lean as domain-specific guardrails, which at runtime are enforced on agents; proofs verify that the policy evaluation at runtime yields true or false, ensuring wrong actions are prevented.
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Q: The Lean programming language, can you talk about what it is?
The guest explains that Lean is a functional programming language designed for proving correctness, while also allowing regular programming, and that it can be used to verify code beyond Lean itself, including translating Rust into Lean for verification.

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A tech-forward discussion series that centers on software engineering, AI-enabled development, and modern developer workflows. Episodes frequently cover agent-based tooling, AI governance, scalable platforms, and pragmatic guidance for building reliable systems at scale, often featuring leaders from major tech companies and open-source innovators. Noteworthy angles include practical implementation of agentic SDLCs, enterprise AI governance, and the evolving role of developers as orchestrators of autonomous tools, with an emphasis on balancing speed with quality and safety. The show stands out for its hands-on, practitioner-focused perspective and its ability to translate complex AI and platform topics into usable patterns for engineering te... more

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