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Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source Ryan is joined by Philippe Saade, the AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, to dive into the Wikidata Embedding Project and how their team vectorized 30 million of Wikidata’s 119 million entries for semantic search.
20.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a pay-per-crawl model Inside the pay-per-crawl model colaunched by Stack Overflow and Cloudflare.
19.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers Developer trust is synonymous with a willingness to deploy AI-generated code to production systems with minimal human review, as well as assurance that AI tools aren’t introducing unacceptable risks and technical debt that will burden you down the line.
18.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive portfolio that includes SQL Server, CosmosDB, and Postgres; and the challenges that come with database architecture, from the importance of cost governance and multi-cloud strategies to the future of databases when it comes to AI.
17.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Even your voice is a data problem Recorded last December at AWS re:Invent, Ryan welcomes CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, Scott Stephenson, for a conversation on advancing voice AI technology.
13.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How everyone and anyone can use AI for good There are big hitters in the AI space that use this tech for humanitarian and environmental good—from start-ups fighting climate change to voice recognition experts diagnosing diseases. But you don't need to be backed by AWS or Microsoft to do good. In part two of this series, we dive into how anyone can use AI for good.
12.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is anyone using AI for good? In a world where AI is replacing human workers, using up energy and water, and deepening disconnect, is AI for humanitarian good even possible? The answer is yes. In the first part of this two part series, we're taking a look at just a few AI do-gooders and what they're doing to fight climate change, make healthcare more accessible, and help their communities.
11.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought, which explores the history of the philosophy, mathematics, and logic that underlie artificial intelligence, and scientists' efforts to describe our minds using mathematics.
10.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs Not only is there a future for software development, but we’re on the cusp of enormous demand for code developed by humans.
09.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal We have another two-for-one special this week, with two more interviews from the floor of re:Invent.
06.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory Quality software still needs high-quality code, AI agents or not.
04.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs) Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December.
03.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
02.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wanna see a CSS magic trick? Ryan is joined by Chris Coyier, founder of CSS Tricks and CodePen, to talk all about what the state of the art of CSS is today, including new features like variables and scroll-driven animations.
30.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Scaling enterprise AI: lessons in governance and operating models from IBM Successful implementation and scaling of enterprise AI projects is fundamentally a people and operating model challenge, not just a technology problem.
29.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are you learning with AI? We want to know about it! We're running a survey to understand how people are using AI to learn and whether that's helping, hurting, and replacing tools.
29.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are bugs and incidents inevitable with AI coding agents? What specific kind of bugs is AI more likely to generate? Do some categories of bugs show up more often? How severe are they? How is this impacting production environments?
28.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spy vs spy at scale Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in intelligence in places like translation and image analysis, the challenges of evolving modern tech into government infrastructure, and the importance of democratized intelligence so citizens can keep themselves and loved ones safe.
27.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stack Gives Back 2025! We’re excited to announce our 17th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations.
26.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt Ryan sits down with Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech to discuss how AI creates tech debt at scale and what you can do about it.
23.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Automate your security whack-a-mole: Q&A with Exaforce Security controls can be a bit of a cat and mouse game—you block one attack, new ones spring up.
22.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol Learn how to protect MCP servers from unauthorized access and how authentication of MCP clients to MCP servers works.
21.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t let your backend write checks your frontend can’t cache Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your frontend and your backend when using AI code.
20.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How AWS re:Invented the cloud From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonomous agents will ease developers' operational burdens.
16.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors If a new post looks very similar to content that has been recently removed for being spam, it's likely spam too.
15.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential Learn how IBM deployed and integrated AI tools in the ultimate enterprise environment.
15.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI What we learned from the first year of Leaders of Code
14.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vibe code anything in a Hanselminute Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding.
13.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow Registered users can now join public chat rooms from day one, making it easier to connect, learn, and participate in the community
12.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, their new tool, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future holds for personalized user experiences in ecommerce.
09.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0