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Ryan talks with Sterling Chin, a senior developer advocate at Postman, about the intersection of APIs and AI. They cover the emergence of AI APIs, the importance of quality APIs for AI integrations, and the evolving role of GraphQL in this new landscape. Sterling explains how some organizations are shifting toward an API-first development approach […]
January 8, 2025 Have an idea? Turn it into a prototype first. On today’s episode, Ben and Ryan chat with Himanshu Sharma, Staff Software Engineer at Intuit, about their processes for rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping has a deep history at Intuit, starting from their very first product design. They talk about how that process went […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2025.] In May of 2024, we opened up the 14th annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2025.] Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re looking for a new job, […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2025.] In the Developer Coefficient, a study commissioned by the fintech giant Stripe, developers reported […]
December 3, 2024 Ben talks with Eran Yahav, a former researcher on IBM Watson who’s now the CTO and cofounder of AI coding company Tabnine. Ben and Eran talk about the intersection of software development and AI, the evolution of program synthesis, and Eran’s path from IBM research to startup CTO. They also discuss how […]
November 22, 2024 Ben and Ryan sit down with public interest technologist Sukhi Gulati Gilbert, a senior product manager at Consumer Reports, for a conversation about digital data privacy. They talk about why digital privacy matters, the challenges consumers face in safeguarding their data, and the legislative gaps in privacy protection, along with the app […]
November 15, 2024 Chris Fowler, Director of Engine for Call of Duty, tells Ben and Ryan about his path from marine biology to game development, the ins and outs of game engines, and the technical feats involved in creating massively popular games like Call of Duty. Chris also explains why community feedback is so critical […]
Fine-tuning techniques: The term “fine tuning” refers to further training a pretrained model. In the case of LLMs, this means that we take a pretrained foundation model and train it some more. But, there are so many different ways that this training can be done, which makes the concept of fine tuning incredibly vague. This […]