Issue 220: Why we're partnering with AI
Welcome to ISSUE #220 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and
Cassidy Williams
. This week: the path to AI adoption, the legality of taking free stuff, and the hot new Core Web Vital just dropped.
From the blog
Ben talks with Ryan Polk, Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow, about our strategic partnership with Google Cloud, the importance of collaboration between AI companies and the Stack Overflow community, and why Stack Overflow’s Q&A format is so suitable for training AI models.
According to Gartner research over the last six years, CIOs and technology executives at organizations around the globe are eager to deploy AI initiatives into production, but the rate of actual deployment remains low.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
In this episode of the Cloud Masters Podcast, DoiT covers what you *should* do to properly upgrade your RDS AWS MySQL databases from 5.7 to 8.0, and lessons that you can apply to any EOL migration. Listen now!
Interesting questions
If every candidate fails your coding test, the test might not be the real problem.
The engineers in the audience will be familiar with the answer: "it depends."
Depriving others of property is still theft even when the property costs nothing.
"Of course data scientists need to know statistical methods!" say users on site for statistics questions.
Links from around the web
Way before sending them over your smartphones, photos were sent over literal wires!
This is a joint project between web engine giants Blink, Gecko, and WebKit that helps you test the performance of a bunch of different content types and frameworks.
A new measurement of responsiveness to user interactions just dropped!
You don't really think about how blurring works across photos, videos, or even websites, but there's more to it than you might imagine.
Looking for the tools, technologies, and skills your team needs to evolve in the AI era?
Stack Overflow's Industry Guide to AI
has your answers.
