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              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.

                  August 11, 2026

                  Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing

                  Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without a human-in-the-loop, and what the democratization of skills means for junior developers and the talent pipeline.

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              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.

              April 28, 2026

              Turning scattered knowledge into trusted intelligence: Stack Internal 2026.3

              Now generally available in the 2026.3 release, Ingestion transforms siloed content into structured, verified knowledge—optimized for both your teams and AI.

              March 2, 2026

              What’s new at Stack Overflow: March 2026

              All that's new on Stack Overflow last month, including the redesigned Stack Overflow now available in beta and open-ended questions now available to all users, plus a shoutout to the community members earning the Populist badge.

              February 2, 2026

              What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

              This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

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                July 31, 2026

                Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth

                Your semantic layer is a risk mitigation strategy. Not risk in the abstract, compliance-framework sense, but the practical, operational risk that quietly drains organizations every day.

                    Jeremy Arendt
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                    oreilly
                July 29, 2026

                Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

                The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces the process.

                    Ryan Donovan
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                    Buiilding software
                July 24, 2026

                No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?

                In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer.

                    Phoebe Sajor
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                    No Dumb Questions
                July 6, 2026

                When the sensor starts thinking: SnortML, agentic AI, and the evolving architecture of intrusion detection

                Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shifting from "does this match a known pattern?" to "does this actually make sense in context?"

                    Samaresh Kumar Singh
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                    AI
                June 26, 2026

                Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?

                If you want your values to spread throughout the industry, the best thing you can possibly do is succeed and make others want to imitate you.

                    Charity Majors
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                    DevEx
                June 23, 2026

                The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!

                Once again, we're asking for your help to take the temperature of software development.

                    Ryan Donovan
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                June 19, 2026

                Dispatches from O'Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities

                Designing contract-bound AI agents for high-stakes execution.

                    Artur Huk
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                    AI
                June 17, 2026

                AI agents are a confused deputy with the keys to your kingdom

                How attackers took twenty thousand Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI politely, and why that failure is about to become common.

                    Fabio Salvadori
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                    security
                June 12, 2026

                Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground?

                Capacity is one of the hardest problems because it sits at the knotty, gnarled-up intersection of so many other hard problems.

                    Charity Majors
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                    DevEx
                June 10, 2026

                Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents

                If your coding agent has questions, Stack Overflow for Agents has answers, now in beta.

                    David Gibson, Janice Manningham
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                    Company
                June 8, 2026

                What can 500 years of journalism teach developers about AI trustworthiness?

                AI reliability issues stem from three separate architectural challenges that keep getting lumped into the same category. Prompt engineering alone can't fix them. But the sourcing and verification frameworks media organizations have used for centuries translate into clear engineering solutions developers can implement today.

                    Ritoban Mukherjee
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                    AI
                May 28, 2026

                In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders

                If AI is the new power tool for developers, is there still value in artisanal craft when anyone can be a builder?

                    Phoebe Sajor
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                    AI
                May 27, 2026

                Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work

                AI’s impact on software engineering continues, and more and more of that AI is packaged as agents as results from our newest pulse survey show agentic usage has almost doubled (59%) since we last asked about it in our annual Developer Survey

                    Erin Yepis
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                    AI
                May 22, 2026

                Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator

                Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development.

                    Andrew Stellman
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                May 21, 2026

                Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue

                With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can AI solve the problems it's causing?

                    Ryan Donovan
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                    AI
                May 15, 2026

                No Dumb Questions: What is cloud computing and why is everyone doing it?

                In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe is joined by Stack Overflow’s tech lead for the infrastructure team, Josh Zhang, to learn about the cloud, compute, and data centers.

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        August 6, 2026

        Issue 341: Are you a human or a robot?

        What happens when our bots start acting more like us and we start acting more like our bots? And look, unless the robots are Robin Williams as The Bicentennial Man, it probably isn’t good. The truth is, our tools aren’t the only things evolving—the way we’re using them is changing too. This week, we’re taking a look at the good, the bad, and the slop of human-AI interactions. On the pod, WPEngine’s Ramadass Prabakar chats with us about how our online world is changing because of bots disguised as humans and what we need to do to keep human actions protected on our internet. Komodor’s Asaf Savich joins us to discuss the evolving world of AI-powered SRE and where humans still need to be in the loop for reliability. On the blog, we’re exploring what happens when we become too attached to our developer tools in a world where those tools are constantly changing (spoiler: we stop trusting the tools we’re so attached to). And speaking of trust, we’re diving into how context is the best risk mitigation strategy for unwieldy AI-powered programs, and taking a look at the new features launching in Stack Internal that are helping build that context. From the web, we’ve got stories on how not to use AI in human interactions, what we can achieve with infinite tokens, and how our language—and how we learn it—is evolving. And of course, this wouldn’t be your trusty Overflow newsletter if we didn’t satiate your curiosity. If you’ve been wondering about the legality of the original Trojan Horse, if Odysseus had weird feet, or how original your academic career is, we’ve got all of that and more ready for you down below.

        July 30, 2026

        Issue 340: Friends in code places

        Personally, we think we could all use some coding friends in this day and age. For instance, good friends give you a reality check when you need it most. In this issue, some of our buddies are here to give us a reality check on the state of software development. We sit down with Snowflake’s Umesh Unnikrishnan to break down why the future of dev is full-stack and how enterprise software is adapting to autonomous agents. We welcome back VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht to discuss Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero, proving that good friendships can keep major open-source ecosystems like Vite alive. Plus Stack’s very own Michael Foree teaches us about context engineering in the latest No Dumb Questions. If you’re looking for something fun to do with your friends, we’ve got stories from around the web for inspiration. You could, for instance, explore one of the 2,435 castles around the world with them. Or find some deep sea coral together. Or port DOOM onto a custom CPU. And what would friendship be without some occasional tough love? No one gives out tough love better than our Stack community, who are sharing their knowledge on everything from bad teaching practices to seeing in the dark to shared memories. We have all of those links and more ready for you down below, bestie. No need to thank us. I mean, what are friends for?

        July 23, 2026

        Issue 339: Summertime and the codin's easy

        If you had asked us last summer what dev life would be like in 2026, we probably wouldn’t have guessed right. But now that the summer of 2026 is upon us, there’s not much we can do but roll with the punches and get a little tan while we can. To really celebrate the warmth of summer, this week we’ve decided to look at the sunnier side of agentic workflows. On the pod, we’re chatting with new friends and old about how the latest tools out of Microsoft and GitHub are making code generation easier than ever—with the caveat that easier code doesn’t always mean easier work. Microsoft’s Sarah Bird shares with us how we can build more responsible AI to combat some of the negatives of agentic workflows, and what research is saying about responsible human-AI collaboration. And what feels like summer more than catching up with longtime pals? GitHub dev advocate née Stack pod host Cassidy Williams returns to weigh-in on the newest updates to GitHub Copilot and the current state of the developer community. Beyond the blog, we’re dipping our toes into the vast pool of interesting internet stories, covering everything from the joys of piracy to the latest ways to fool AI. And get your sunblock out—this week’s round-up of burning questions from our community is in. Whether you’re dealing with scammers or bad collaborators, like an umbrella on a hot beach day, the curious minds of the Stack community got you covered. It’s looking like it’s going to be a scorcher—might as well dive right in at the links below.

        July 16, 2026

        Issue 338: An earth rattling change in software

        The world of software development has always been about big booms and tectonic shifts in the industry. You know as well as we do that AI has been one of those cultural shakers. Even now, after the first wave of changes have rocked our technical worlds, we’re still feeling aftershocks. This week is all about those smaller shifts and what they mean for software. Live from Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s Jay Parikh joined us to discuss how even agent harnesses are getting a major evolution with Microsoft’s newest releases. You.com’s Saahil Jain also sat down with us to explore the big changes we’ve seen in AI tools since 2024, and why heavy orchestration is a thing of the past. And it’s not just the harnesses and architecture that are changing around AI. We’ve basically added more layers of abstraction on top of our abstractions, which is why we have a piece from the web this week on controlling ideas instead of code. But abstracting everything is gonna cost ya: we’ve got the story of token costs between models, so you can be well-informed when you someday abstract your entire life away. But not everything in our bits and binary world is feeling earth-rocking shifts on the daily. No, one thing is always going to stay stable: the curiosity of our Stack community, who ask the questions we're all wondering about. For instance…what’s the likelihood of death by space debris? Does Lex Luthor use KryptonGPT? How did this rusty screw get in my laundry? Let’s not shake things up too much and end this Overflow like we always do. We've got all that and more ready for you down below.

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