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The Stack Overflow Podcast

For well over a decade, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software engineering is changing our world. From creating code to running it in production, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ryan Donovan, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things software.

Website ↗ Last published 3 November 2026 998 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Stack Overflow Podcast

“Why do we accept a 400-line or 4,000-line PR from AI when we wouldn't from our coworkers? Why wouldn't we go back to the AI and say, you need to break this down into ten smaller things that I can actually review and understand? Part of us learning to adjust to this new tool is building cultural norms that say, just because the AI wrote it doesn't mean you have to accept it as is.” — Dan Moore, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Dan Moore · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“We have a couple of principles around AI agents. One is the agent needs its own identity, because if it's riding along with your identity, it's really hard to audit and really hard to differentiate. The people who let agents drive their browsers terrify me. And another is that the bounds around the agent need to be deterministic software. It's not enough to say, hey, Claude, don't break anything or be good. Because they will try to do whatever they can to accomplish their goal. That's what we've seen.” — Dan Moore, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Dan Moore · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Intelligence is overweighted on. It has been dramatically overweighted on for the past few decades at least, if not longer. There are so many things about being a person are not about how smart you are. And the more obsessed we get with our intelligence and with being the best, the more we really lose out on the journey and the joy of the … there's so much more to life than smarts.” — Charity Majors, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Charity Majors · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think that if we re-architect our software so that we can understand it at the level of functions instead of lines, if you re-architect it so that there are bounded parts that can be cut. And of course, the most durable part of this system would be the evals, not the code itself. The evals describe what must be true for this to be defined as good. And then, yeah, we can generate 10,000 … and see which one is the best, you know?” — Charity Majors, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Charity Majors · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Rule one is thou must not kill your customer. And that goes for everything from people who build elevators to people who build toasters. Do not kill your customer. Nothing must go wrong ever.” — James Gosling, The Stack Overflow Podcast
James Gosling · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We posted a meme that like Claude and ChatGPT and other tools, they will tell you you're absolutely right. But formal methods tools, they'll tell you you're absolutely wrong.” — Gabriela Moreira, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Gabriela Moreira · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It makes people feel fearless because they feel well protected. There's a phenomenon where seatbelts made people drive faster, but unlike with cars, it's okay if you drive faster with Rust. It'll be right there for you.” — Josh Triplett, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Josh Triplett · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Not particularly spicy hot take, I think no power on this earth makes vibe coding safe but everything is a spectrum in that regard.” — Josh Triplett, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Josh Triplett · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“…I'd say most engineers who've worked on large-scale projects never really had an ability to understand 100% of the code anyway, right?” — Andi Gutmans, The Stack Overflow Podcast
Andi Gutmans · 21 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Stack Overflow Podcast is hosted by Ryan Donovan , Ben Popper , Cassidy Williams , David Fullerton , Jay Hanlon , Ben Halpern , Ira May , Jody Bailey , Prashanth Chandrasekar , Peter O'Connor , Kyle Mitofsky and Paul Ford .

Recent Episodes

  1. 3 Nov 2026

    Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too

    With Dan Moore

  2. 30 Oct 2026

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

    With Charity Majors

  3. 27 Oct 2026

    Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java

    With James Gosling

  4. 23 Oct 2026

    Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated

    With Nivia Henry

  5. 20 Oct 2026

    Don't forget about the UI for AI

    With Andrew Ambrosino

  6. 16 Oct 2026

    AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong

    With Gabriela Moreira

  7. 13 Oct 2026

    Keep calm and call clone with Rust

    With Josh Triplett

  8. 9 Oct 2026

    Taking a look under your agent’s hood

    With Yanbing Li

  9. 6 Oct 2026

    Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

    With Erin Yepis

  10. 2 Oct 2026

    Constraints that make developers faster

    With Julien Verlaguet

  11. 29 Sep 2026

    Your phone is AI’s newest hardware

    With Div Garg

  12. 25 Sep 2026

    Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill

    With David Burns

Guests

Scott Hanselman (4 episodes), Anil Dash (4 episodes), Jenn Schiffer (4 episodes), Evan You (3 episodes), Spiros Xanthos (3 episodes), Joel Spolsky (3 episodes), Jon Skeet (3 episodes), Guillermo Rauch (2 episodes), Jeff Atwood (2 episodes), Manish Gupta (2 episodes), Nancy Wang (2 episodes), Georges Saab (2 episodes), and 337 more.