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Featured 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. July 24, 2026 Partnerships can keep open source sustainable Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflare’s distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond. The Stack Overflow Podcast javascript Open Source dev tools developer tools typescript Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Spotify RSS feed Releases 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. January 5, 2026 What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026 For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong. Latest articles 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 0 comment s No Dumb Questions AI autonomous agents agentic AI 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 0 comment s AI CC BY-SA 4.0 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 0 comment s DevEx June 19, 2026 Dispatches from O'Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities Designing contract-bound AI agents for high-stakes execution. Artur Huk 1 comment 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 6 comment s security Running software 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 0 comment s 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 5 comment s Company AI 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 0 comment s 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 1 comment AI dev life dev tools vibe coding 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 0 comment s AI Pulse survey May 22, 2026 Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Andrew Stellman 0 comment s oreilly AI 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 1 comment AI Productivity 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. Phoebe Sajor 1 comment No Dumb Questions cloud cloud computing cloud native CPU AI May 8, 2026 No Dumb Questions: What is an MCP server and why do I care? Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter. Phoebe Sajor 0 comment s AI MCP AI agents Stack Internal No Dumb Questions May 6, 2026 How we replaced Ingress-NGINX at Stack Overflow Ingress-NGINX had been handling our traffic routing since moving to Kubernetes, but when it was announced it would be retired, we were forced to consider a new traffic routing solution. 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