The Stack Overflow Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joins the show to dive into the implications of AI coding tools on the software engineering lifecycle. They explore how AI tools are transforming the work of developers from syntax-focused tasks to higher-level design and management roles, and how AI will integrate into enterprise environments. 

Episode notes:

Sourcegraph is building AI-code agents for enterprises to accelerate how companies build software.

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Today’s shoutout is for user sumek, who won a Populist badge for answering the question How do you search through Vim's command history?.

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U.S. Bank has undergone a significant digital transformation, implementing a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate innovation and improve customer-focused development. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the bank must navigate the challenge of balancing innovation with strict compliance requirements while meeting the evolving demands and needs of customers and employees. 

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Jody Bailey, Stack Overflow’s CPO, Anirudh Kaul, Senior Director of Software Engineering, and Paul Petersen, Cloud Platform Engineering Manager, discuss the U.S. Bank’s journey from traditional banking practices to embracing new technologies. The conversation covers the technical and organizational aspects of large-scale cloud migration, along with their leadership approach during this transformative period.

Key topics include:

• How U.S. Bank empowers teams to innovate without sacrificing team agility. The importance of team collaboration, transparency, trust, and continuous communication in fostering innovation and successful tool adoption.
• Cloud migration strategies and the role of platform engineering in enabling and supporting organizational change.

Notes:

• Connect with Anirudh Kaul and Paul Petersen. Learn more about U.S. Bank.
• Connect with Jody Bailey on LinkedIn. 

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Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.

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Today we’re shouting out a Famous Question badge winner, user jkfe, for their question How to hide/show thymeleaf fields based on controller condition?.

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Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI.

Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript?. 

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The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models.

Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.

Connect with Shayne via his website.

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Stack Overflow user George Hawkins earned a Populist badge by explaining How to get base url in angular 5?.

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Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code.

Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams.

Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by explaining How to access the appsettings in Blazor WebAssembly.

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Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. 

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Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind: their helpful answer to the question – How to run jq from gitbash in windows? – has been viewed by more than 213,000 people and won a Populist badge.

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Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X.

Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn.

To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website. 

Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity?

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Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog.

We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. 

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Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List?, a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people.

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Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle control. They’re hiring!

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Stack Overflow user user3330840 won a Lifeboat badge for their answer to My commits appear as another user in GitHub?.

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