A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/27/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-chunking-in-rag-applications/
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/balancing-business-and-open-source-in-2024/
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/26/the-ghost-jobs-haunting-your-career-search/
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing). https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/25/the-real-10x-developer-makes-their-whole-team-better/
A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/how-developer-jobs-and-the-job-market-changed-in-2024/
Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/23/can-a-programming-language-implement-time-travel/
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/20/this-developer-tool-is-40-years-old-can-it-be-improved/
Ben and Ryan catch up with Nenne Adaora “Adora” Nwodo, who recently joined Stack Overflow as a platform engineering manager. From her childhood fascination with computers to her years as a software engineer at Microsoft, Adora shares her evolution as a technologist. She tells Ben and Ryan about her experience interviewing for and accepting a role at Stack Overflow, the projects she’s working on in her new role, her nonprofit work in the edtech space, and how she prioritizes happiness in her care
It's time to delegate to the robots. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/19/developers-hate-documentation-ai-generated-toil-work/
