The Stack Overflow Podcast

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 fixing flaky tests comes down to managing application state.
Episode notes:
BrowserStack is a software testing platform where David heads up developer advocacy and the open source office.
Connect with David Burns on LinkedIn to check out his podcast, BrowserStack Talks.
Congrats to Populist badge winner brentvatne for winning the badge on their answer to Read app.json (or exp.json) programmatically.
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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 with coding agents become siloed context, why a party chat with devs and agents flattens writing code and code review into a single step, and why a Slack channel might be a better dev environment than a terminal.
Episode notes:
Check out the article Rob mentioned: Learning on the shop floor.
 If you want to code multiplayer, check out Code Channels.
Connect with Rob by email at rseaman@slack-corp.com, on LinkedIn, or Twitter.
Congrats to Populist badge winner petro.sidlovskyy for dropping a great answer on What's the best way to ensure a base class's static constructor is called?.

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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 convergence of software and hardware development timelines.
Episode notes:
ROCm is AMD's unified, open-source software layer and toolchain that allows developers to program on AMD's hardware accelerators.
Connect with Anush on X.
Congrats to Populist badge winner Blitz for winning the badge on their answer to Is there a way to view your apps dot entitlements file from your app’s IPA archive?.

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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 becoming highly valuable as knowledge becomes a commodity.
Episode notes:
O'Reilly Media is a technology transfer company that leverages books, online learning platforms, and their new O'Reilly Expert Intelligence tool to shape both human and agentic learning.
Connect with Tim on X and read his Substacks, Conversations with AI and Asimov's Addendum.
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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 regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws.
Episode notes:
The AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law explores the complex legal and policy questions surrounding artificial intelligence, which Kevin also covers on his own podcast, Scaling Laws.
This episode was recorded at the Ai4 conference. Listen to our other Ai4 conversation with Paypal’s Srini Venkatesan and Zscaler’s Sam Curry.
Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn and X.
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