Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/04/research-roadmap-update-november-2024/
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/01/how-a-creator-of-react-is-rethinking-ides/
There are a ton of different ways to finetune a language model. Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purpose, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a seamless checkout experience, the importance of reducing friction in payment processes, and how documentation can directly assist the integration experience. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/30/pay
Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/29/how-can-you-get-your-kids-into-coding-we-asked-an-8-year-old/
Ben chats with Shayne Longpre and Robert Mahari of the Data Provenance Initiative about what GenAI means for the data commons. They discuss the decline of public datasets, the complexities of fair use in AI training, the challenges researchers face in accessing data, potential applications for synthetic data, and the evolving legal landscape surrounding AI and copyright. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/25/tragedy-of-the-data-commons/
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/23/improve-developer-experience-ecommerce-fastlane-paypal-sponsored/
This release introduces Subject Matter Expert (SME) Auto-Assign to the Stack Overflow for Teams experience so expert knowledge is automatically captured, verified, and distributed to users. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/23/empower-subject-matter-experts-to-contribute/
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/22/stack-overflow-ceo-update-first-half-1h-2024/
