The 2025.4 Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise (SOE) release is all about helping teams work more seamlessly across tools, departments, and knowledge silos. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/27/strengthening-integrations-reliability-and-trust-new-features-for-stack-overflow-for-teams/
Douwe Kiela, CEO and cofounder of Contextual AI, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the intricacies of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They discuss its origins, the evolution of AI models, the challenges of hallucinations, and the importance of system design. Douwe emphasizes the need for personalization in ranking systems and the role of synthetic data in improving AI models. They also cover the future of RAG, the integration of structured and unstructured data, and the significance of context
Kyle is joined by his former colleague Tyler McEntee, now a senior software engineer at Jona, to talk about doing everything all at once at a startup. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/26/wbit-8-typescript-for-gut-biomes/
Matthew McCullough, VP of Product for Android Developer Experience, sits down with Ryan to talk advancements in Android development, enhancing developer efficiency and reducing routine toil, and the application of Gemini AI models to improve software toolchains. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/23/can-a-dev-environment-spark-joy-the-android-team-thinks-so/
Ryan is joined by Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, and Qian Li, co-founder of DBOS, to discuss durable execution and its use cases, its implementation using technologies like PostgreSQL, and its applications in machine learning pipelines and AI systems for reliability, debugging, and observability. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/20/durable-execution-autosave-for-your-microservices/
As we envision what the ideal future version of Stack Overflow looks like, we’re committed to engaging with our community. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/20/ceo-update-exploration-and-experimentation-for-bold-evolution/
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/19/research-roadmap-update-may-2025/
Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce. Christophe explains how they solicited and incorporated feedback from the developer community in building the developer edition, what types of AI agents people are building, and the critical importance of guardrails and prompt engineering. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/16/salesforce-wa
Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes? https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/15/whether-ai-is-a-bubble-or-revolution-how-does-software-survive/
On this episode, Ryan chats with Hendrik Rexed, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, about debugging cloud-based applications like you would a local app. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/13/next-level-observability-live-breakpoint-debugging/
