This is part two of our conversation with Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, about retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and why it’s crucial for the success of your AI initiatives. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/05/chunking-express-an-expert-breaks-down-how-to-build-your-rag-system/
Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/04/in-rust-we-trust-white-house-office-urges-memory-safety/
On this episode: Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, joins Ben and Ryan to break down what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is and why the concept is central to the AI conversation. This is part one of our conversation, so tune in next time for the thrilling conclusion. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/01/it-s-rag-time-for-llms-that-need-a-source-of-truth/
Stack Overflow is on a journey to build a new era in the practice of AI: the era of social responsibility. All products based on models that consume public Stack Overflow data are required to provide attribution back to the highest relevance posts that influenced the summary given by the model.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/defining-socially-responsible-ai-how-we-select-api-partners/
Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/28/optimizing-both-hardware-and-software-for-genai/
On this episode: Matt Van Itallie, Founder and CEO at Sema, a company that assesses code to improve outcomes for users, companies, and developers. Plus, friend of the show and erstwhile cohost Cassidy Williams joins the conversation. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/27/how-to-convince-your-ceo-it-s-worth-paying-down-tech-debt/
If you’re building experimental GenAI features that haven’t proven their product market fit, you don’t want to commit to a model that runs up costs without a return on that investment. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/26/even-llms-need-education-quality-data-makes-llms-overperform/
On this home team episode: Discussions on Stack Overflow is a new feature that allows users to engage in open-ended conversations outside the site’s primary Q&A structure. The team explores deep-cut Stack Exchange questions about the nature of consciousness and the availability of corrective lenses for medieval knights. Plus: The psychology of downvoting and a recent FCC ruling on AI-generated robocalls. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/23/down-the-rabbit-hole-in-the-stack-exchange-network/
We chat with Andrew Boyagi, Atlassian's Senior Developer Evangelist, about bringing great developer experience to teams and platforms with thousands of engineers. When the software sprawl gets so big you spend more time looking for answers than solving problems, it might be time to try something new. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/20/atlassian-compasss-software-component-catalog/
We chat with Andrew Boyagi, Atlassian's Senior Developer Evangelist, about bringing great developer experience to teams and platforms with thousands of engineers. When the software sprawl gets so big you spend more time looking for answers than solving problems, it might be time to try something new. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/01/16/atlassian-compasss-software-component-catalog/
