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Explore how Capital One is using tech to innovate the banking experience here. Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and visit her blog.  Shoutout to Theraot for answering the questions How to connect a signal with extra arguments in Godot 4, which won them a Lifeboat badge.

SPONSORED BY GUARDSQUARELearn more about mobile application security and how to protect your app. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Chitrakshi for rescuing TypeScript Error: No overload matches this call in Express route handler.

Antithesis is an autonomous testing platform that finds bugs in your software with perfect reproducibility. Connect with Will Wilson on Linkedin. Congrats to hannes neukermans whose question How can I do tag wrapping in Visual Studio Code? won them a Stellar Question badge. Our 2025 Developer Survey is live! We want to know what your developer life is like!

Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page, including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick. Connect with Glen Coates on LinkedIn and X. Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C#.

The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively. Explores how Abnormal Security utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and his team are leveraging AI to drive compounding productivity within their organization. Connect with Dan Shiebler on LinkedIn and learn more about Abnormal Security.

Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here. Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn.  Congrats to Stack Overflow Smrutiranjan Sahu, who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter.

Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike.  Connect with Tyler on Twitter. 

Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio.  Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things.  Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn. Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error.

DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures. Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn. Connect with Qian on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned them a Lifeboat badge.

The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building. Connect with Christophe on LinkedIn.  Instead of a badge, we have a question for you:  If you are a developer who is working with AI agents, what are you building? What tools are you looking for? What problems are you interested in solving with AI tools? Send us an email at [email protected]. 

Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster. Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger. Connect with Henrik Rexed on LinkedIn or check out Is it Observable on YouTube.

watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub. We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready.  Find Maryam on LinkedIn.  Congrats to Stack Overflow Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answer to Is it possible to a website’s entire code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files?.

Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions. Connect with Abby on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android programmatically?.

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives.  They also discuss: AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work. The challenges of scaling organizations and the importance of centralized developer experience teams to improve productivity. How non-technical staff can contribute to engineering tasks through the democratization of technology, enabling more innovation. Episode notes: Connect with Dan Lines on LinkedIn. If you're looking to improve productivity for your engineering organization, check out LinearB.

Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs. Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.

SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech. Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. today! 

The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch. Find Greg on LinkedIn.

Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor. Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN. Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare. Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo.  This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. today! 

They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness. Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments. Episode notes: Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk. Visit Lloyds Banking Group to discover available job opportunities. Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams.

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents. Find Florian on LinkedIn.  This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. today!