It Ain't Real Till You Break Prod

It Ain't Real Till You Break Prod

Cassidy helps to write The Overflow newsletter and is two months into a new gig as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. That's where she broke Prod, but it turned out ok.

We chat about Hey what it means for software engineers when prominent coders are arguing with big mobile platforms about the fees that the owners of the OS collect. What's old is new again.

Bot armies are farming gold in World of Warcraft, which takes us down a wandering path of wondering how often people have access to powerful computers, but limited access to money they can spend on essentials.

Last but not least, we try to dissect a great question from our Software Engineering Stack Exchange: ways to explain code when told it doesn't make sense.

Shout out to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, "wizard", who answered the following question: is there an equivalent method to C's scanf in Java.

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Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains what we'll see with UI 2.0

Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains what we'll see with UI 2.0

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From prompt attacks to data leaks, LLMs offer new capabilities and new threats

From prompt attacks to data leaks, LLMs offer new capabilities and new threats

SPONSORED BY DOITThe broken nose in jail scam is on the rise. With AI improvements, it’ll get harder to spot. OWASP, a non-profit dedicated to software security, tracks the top ten security risks for ...

20 Des 202324min

A tax change is hurting startups and developers

A tax change is hurting startups and developers

On today’s home team episode, Ben and Ryan discuss the implications of a lapse in section 174 of the tax code. Here’s a great explainer on how it’s affecting startups and software firms, threatening j...

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Can an AI get depressed?

Can an AI get depressed?

Does ChatGPT have seasonal depression?AIs aren’t building apps on their own, at least not yet—but they are helping developers build them. Read Isaac Lyman’s article about the three types of AI-assiste...

15 Des 202317min

Bringing context to alerting and incident management

Bringing context to alerting and incident management

SPONSORED BY FIREHYDRANTWhile FireHydrant is mostly known for their incident management software, they’re introducing Signals to modernize alerting and consolidate it with incident management. FireHyd...

13 Des 202322min

What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

What Gemini means for the GenAI boom

Gemini, Google’s new AI model, is great at competitive programming, among other things.AI Explained is a YouTube channel that covers the latest developments in AI.One problem with regulating AI is tha...

12 Des 202321min

One weird trick for teaching users your software

One weird trick for teaching users your software

CommandBar is a user assistance platform (UAP). Their flagship product, Copilot, is an embedded user assistant agent that companies can configure to help their users with on-demand help, including int...

8 Des 202330min

Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?

Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?

Do LLMs herald the end of computer programming (as we know it)? A Harvard lecture weighs in on this contentious topic.An epic hardware bug story.Question from the academic trenches: How bad will it lo...

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