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The Stack Overflow Podcast

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About this 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.

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What is The Stack Overflow Podcast about?

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.

What has The Stack Overflow Podcast covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java" (27 October 2026, 36 minutes), "Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated" (23 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "Don't forget about the UI for AI" (20 October 2026, 25 minutes).

How often does The Stack Overflow Podcast publish?

The Stack Overflow Podcast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 995 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Stack Overflow Podcast?

Booking probability for The Stack Overflow Podcast is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Stack Overflow Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Stack Overflow Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch The Stack Overflow Podcast?

The strongest fits for The Stack Overflow Podcast are IT Services & Software Development. The Stack Overflow Podcast has a technology audience.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast is a technology podcast with 995 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #1003

    Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java

    Oct 27, 202636 min

    Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer...

  • Episode #1002

    Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated

    Oct 23, 202626 min

    Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision...

  • Episode #1001

    Don't forget about the UI for AI

    Oct 20, 202625 min

    Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the...

  • Episode #1000

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

    Oct 16, 202629 min

    Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, how Quint brings developer-friendly syntax and...

  • Episode #997

    Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

    Oct 6, 202634 min

    Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust...

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  • Episode #996

    Constraints that make developers faster

    Oct 2, 202628 min

    Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI...

  • Episode #995

    Your phone is AI’s newest hardware

    Sep 29, 202627 min

    Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app...

  • Episode #994

    Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill

    Sep 25, 202629 min

    Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why...

  • Episode #992

    Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat

    Sep 23, 202630 min

    SPONSORED BY SLACK BY SALESFORCE In this episode, Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats. They discuss how most interactions...

  • Episode #993

    Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm

    Sep 22, 202627 min

    Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid...

  • Episode #991

    The AI magic words

    Sep 18, 202624 min

    Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is...

  • Episode #990

    AI, JD, and other letters of the law

    Sep 15, 202638 min

    Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and...

  • Episode #989

    AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game

    Sep 11, 202628 min

    Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and...

  • Episode #988

    Java’s age is its AI superpower

    Sep 9, 202636 min

    SPONSORED BY IBM Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java. They talk about why the long history of Java both makes for a stable language and a source of...

  • Episode #987

    Scaling your money safely with AI

    Sep 8, 202629 min

    Episode notes:  This episode with Paypal ’s CTO Srini Venkatesan was recorded at the Ai4 conference.  Listen to our other Ai4 conversation with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda...

  • Episode #986

    How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

    Sep 4, 202632 min

    Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how...

  • Episode #984

    The good ol’ days of building Java

    Sep 1, 202630 min

    Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was...

  • Episode #983

    When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct

    Aug 28, 202625 min

    Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements...

  • Episode #982

    Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization

    Aug 25, 202633 min

    Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state. Praveen explains...

  • Episode #980

    From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)

    Aug 21, 202626 min

    Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google and co-creator of PHP, joins Leaders of Code to talk about why agentic development feels less like a break from the past and more like the next chapter of the same...

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