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academia.stackexchange.com

How to know what you don't know?

Who knows!

gardening.stackexchange.com

Just starting out. Can I plant with winter coming up soon?

If only there existed an almanac just for farmers we could check.

cooking.stackexchange.com

When should I take shrimp off the heat in scampi so it doesn't overcook in the sauce?

Long before vibes-based coding, we had vibes-based cooking.

stackoverflow.com

How can I check whether a lazy import has executed in Python 3.15 without triggering it?

They call it Schrödinger’s import.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: The results are here.
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The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!

Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.

November 10, 2026

Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem

Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways in which AI coding tools demand an even higher level of judgment from software engineering teams.

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October 28, 2026

Delivering controlled and concentrated context

Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting stackinternal.com.

September 30, 2026

Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal

Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a Stack Internal workspace for free by visiting stackinternal.com.

September 3, 2026

Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6

In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade knowledge.

July 30, 2026

Your trusted knowledge layer: Introducing Stack Internal's new platform experience

Introducing new Stack Internal capabilities as part of our upcoming platform experience. Our latest release turns your existing foundation of knowledge into enterprise memory that your people, teams, and AI agents can act on. Learn how we’re building the trust layer for enterprise AI.

Latest articles
October 29, 2026

The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated

I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.

Philippe Beaudette
Philippe Beaudette
3 comments
Community
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October 28, 2026

A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer

The AI governance argument is happening one layer above the code that actually stops your agent.

Fabio Marcello Salvadori
Fabio Marcello Salvadori
3 comments
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October 21, 2026

Survey 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. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the trap they’re concerned about is the layer on top of the model.

Craig McLuckie
Craig McLuckie
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October 19, 2026

Production-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.

Varun Jindal
0 comments
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October 15, 2026

Why 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. Building an in-house AI context layer costs more money and energy than you think.

Eira May
Eira May
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October 14, 2026

Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Cory Hymel of Andela

While the whispers say that everyone is becoming a generalist, that's not where headcount is going.

Ryan Donovan
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October 12, 2026

Beyond 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.

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Tom Harvey
1 comment
CommunityDeveloper Story
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October 8, 2026

A 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. It's that the feedback loop you would need in order to learn the tool is broken at the point of measurement.

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Chase W. Hughes
3 comments
AIBuilding software
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October 1, 2026

A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective

This analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographics and community.

Erin Yepis
Erin Yepis
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey retrospective.
September 30, 2026

Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.

AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources disagree, or when they become stale.

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September 30, 2026

Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings

Erin Yepis
Erin Yepis
1 comment
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Stack Overflow: Developer Survey retrospective.
September 16, 2026

From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents

We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the platform (including our new ChatGPT plugin), and how we're continuing to build Stack Overflow.

Phoebe SajorDavid Gibson
Phoebe Sajor, David Gibson
1 comment
AIagentic AICommunity
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September 10, 2026

(Re)introducing Developer Story

For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.

Philippe Beaudette
Philippe Beaudette
3 comments
CommunityCompany
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August 24, 2026

Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design

Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
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August 21, 2026

Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development

When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.

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Markus Eisele
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November 6, 2026

Welcome to life in the chip age

November 3, 2026

Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too

October 30, 2026

It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us

Around the web
carlhandellen.substack.com

An AI rant

The rumors of humanity’s death at the hands of AI have been greatly exaggerated.

nullpt.rs

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

Well that’s one way to stop bots from scraping.

worksinprogress.co

The forgotten formula for lovable cities

We must stop the ensh*ttification of our cities.

nbcnews.com

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

It appears the low-poly rendering experiment has finally failed its real-world rendering test.

newsletter.signoz.io

AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

Or the more terrifying option: never-skilling.

github.com

Astroterm: A planetarium for your terminal

Finally, a way to look at the stars without the terrifying requirement of having to go outside.

techpolicy.press

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

It’s kind of like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

labs.ycombinator.com

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

It’s not procrastinating if you’re playing Minecraft for research purposes.

pepsipu.com

Jailbreaking the Switch2

It's a-me, agentic Mario!

modelcompare.ai

Every AI model has the same “controversial” take on humans

How ironic that the sycophantic AI models think we're too sycophantic.

henrikkarlsson.xyz

How is music possible

Music can literally alter our realities.

edjefferson.com

Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Finally, a Wikipedia to settle arguments about what that weird building down the street used to be.

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November 5, 2026

Issue 354: Sometimes, AI is just better than us

We’ve reached an interesting inflection point in tech where we might just have to admit that computers are (sometimes) better than us—at least when it comes to generating sheer volumes of code. Luckily, there’s one thing humans are still really good at: evolving to meet new challenges. This issue, we’re thinking about that human resilience, and how we can shift the paradigm to still come out on top against the bots. On the podcast, we sit down with Honeycomb co-founder Charity Majors to discuss treating code like cattle instead of pets and navigating the increasingly blurry line between system observability and outright human surveillance. Speaking of tech evolution, we've also got a sit-down with Java creator James Gosling to discuss how the stringent reliability requirements of 90s consumer electronics—think elevators and toasters—birthed one of the most ubiquitous programming languages in history. Plus, we’re tackling the exaggerated rumors of Stack Overflow’s demise, explaining why a JSON schema isn't actually an AI governance layer, and rolling out new context-delivery features in Stack Internal to keep your team aligned. Plus this week, we’ve got stories from all over the web on everything from keeping the open web open to unleashing AI agent swarms into Minecraft for "research" to figuring out if we really are more than the sum of all our parts. Want to get a leg up on the AI bots? Start with building a bit of knowledge by heading down to the links below.

October 29, 2026

Issue 353: There's no need to panic

It’s easy to get caught up in the tech panic of the week, whether that’s the supposed death of SaaS or the fear of being locked into a single AI provider. But if you look a little closer, we're usually worrying about the wrong things—for example, recent survey data from Stacklok shows that while swapping out AI models is actually pretty easy, the real issue is the complex layer of infrastructure and tooling we build on top of them. So think of this Overflow as us taking a big breath, all together now. If you’re panicking about the SaaSPocalypse, we’ve got a conversation with engineering leader Nivia Henry at LDX3 about how likely SaaS is to actually survive in the age of AI when we’re all making build vs. buy decisions. Worried about too many interfaces taking over your life? We chat with OpenAI's Andrew Ambrosino at Dev Day about how they merged ChatGPT and Codex into a unified desktop experience—and the massive technical hurdles that went with it. Anxious your vibecoded prototype will never make it to production? We’ve got a field guide this week for taking your agents from a flashy weekend demo to a production-grade system you can actually depend on. Elsewhere on the web, we’re diving into the culinary panic of rescuing a broken emulsion dressing, why every AI model seems to share the exact same controversial take on humanity, and the relentless optimization of imaginary psychic warfare. Whether you’re trying to jailbreak a brand new console or just trying to figure out what that weird building down the street used to be, there’s no need to panic. Keep calm and carry on down below. We have all you need and more in this week’s links.

October 22, 2026

Issue 352: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

AI has democratized much of our technical world, giving us access to skills and information without ever having to actually learn them. But just because you can do anything nowadays doesn’t necessarily mean you should. But we don’t have to go back to the stone ages (read: the pre-AI days). Sometimes, combining our traditional ways of working with our new ways of working is all we need to do to create really great software. For example, we sit down with Quint’s Gabriela Moreira to explore why formal methods like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, and contributor to the Rust language, Josh Triplett, chats with us about how Rust's strict compiler constraints provide the psychological safety needed for complex systems (and AI coding agents). On the blog, we’re exploring the build vs. buy trolley problem—and why building in-house isn’t always the right answer—and taking a long and hard look at the future of tech jobs with a Q&A with Andela’s Cory Hymel and a little self-reflection on how we hire at Stack Overflow. Elsewhere on the web, we’re diving into whether NDAs cover AI tools, how much non-determinism actually matters in your codebases, and hhow likely those new system1 decision models are to pick saving humans over saving themselves in the trolley problem. In this case, just because you can read all of this in the links below, definitely means you should.

October 15, 2026

Issue 351: Happy sweet 16, Developer Survey!

No one can deny that times are a-changing. Luckily, you’ve got the Annual Developer Survey to help you keep up with how software, technology, and the communities around them are evolving. We’ve spent the last 16 years tracking tech trends and developer sentiment to help you get the big picture of what’s happening in software, and this year is no different (except now, the Developer Survey is old enough to drive). On the blog, we’ve got the rundown of the big data points from this year’s survey. And if you’re more of an auditory learner, our very own Senior Analyst, Erin Yepis, is diving into our findings on the podcast. Speaking of the pod, Datadog’s Yanbing Li also joins us for a look at observability in the age of AI, and how devs can navigate the complex world of AI security. And in the spirit of celebrating the Developer Survey’s sweet 16, we’re asking ourselves the kind of deep questions 16 year olds have. Are there any original ideas anymore? Why is creativity so difficult? Can I just use AI to finish this hard math problem? Why doesn’t this app on my phone work anymore? Dust off your learner’s permit and drive on down below, because we have all of that and more in this week’s links.

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