The Stack Overflow Podcast

Episodes

• Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too

  Nov 3, 2026

  OAuth2 remains useful for agents, but MCP and autonomous-agent scenarios require related standards and implementations that address unknown authorization servers, client metadata, and new delegation patterns.

• It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us

  Oct 30, 2026

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• Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java

  Oct 27, 2026

  Java originated from Gosling and a small group building reliable, networked consumer-device prototypes, not from a formal request to invent a language.

• Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated

  Oct 23, 2026

  AI lowers the cost and time of building internal tools, but organizations must also price in ownership, maintenance, security, compliance, infrastructure, and future growth.

• Don't forget about the UI for AI

  Oct 20, 2026

  OpenAI wants ChatGPT and Codex to become a continuous experience, but will not merge their interfaces until quick questions and long-running coding tasks can be routed without an awkward mode switch.

• AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong

  Oct 16, 2026

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• Keep calm and call clone with Rust

  Oct 13, 2026

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• Taking a look under your agent’s hood

  Oct 9, 2026

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• Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

  Oct 6, 2026

  AI adoption is broad and daily, but developers generally trust outputs only when they can verify them.

• Constraints that make developers faster

  Oct 2, 2026

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• Your phone is AI’s newest hardware

  Sep 29, 2026

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• Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill

  Sep 25, 2026

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• Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat

  Sep 23, 2026

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• Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm

  Sep 22, 2026

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• The AI magic words

  Sep 18, 2026

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• AI, JD, and other letters of the law

  Sep 15, 2026

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• AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game

  Sep 11, 2026

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• Java’s age is its AI superpower

  Sep 9, 2026

  Java’s long history gives agents abundant training data while its typing, specifications, JVM, tooling, and enterprise frameworks provide guardrails for generating and operating code.

• Scaling your money safely with AI

  Sep 8, 2026

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• How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

  Sep 4, 2026

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