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A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages

Stack Overflow Blogby Dave Clemmer2d ago

Thirteen years ago I developed to my knowledge the first and currently the only fully featured model oriented programming language and IDE.

Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal3d ago

There’s a canyon between an agent that demos well and an agent you’d put in front of customers or money.

Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal3d ago

This is Level 5 of a six-level maturity model for running LLM systems in production. The earlier levels got the system working and correct.

A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened

Stack Overflow Blogby Chase W. Hughes3d ago

[Ed. note: If you listened to a podcast or read an article of ours and want to publish a response, let us know.

Part 4: Safety and governance for LLM systems: guardrails, PII, audit, and memory

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal4d ago

The level where an LLM system stops being a demo and earns the right to touch real data and real decisions: layered guardrails that fail closed, PII handled at the boundary, an immutable audit...

Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal4d ago

The most important number an agent produces isn’t its answer — it’s how sure it is. Compose that number from independent signals, check it’s calibrated, grade the high-stakes calls with a second...

Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal4d ago

If you can deploy a prompt change without an eval failing the build, you don’t have evals — you have a notebook. And once the gate is green, the slow leaks are still coming for you.

Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal4d ago

The trick to putting LLM agents in high-stakes systems isn’t a smarter model — it’s containing the model to one node so the rest of the system is ordinary, testable code.

Part 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined build

Stack Overflow Blogby Varun Jindal4d ago

The first session with a coding agent is crisp: it reads the code, makes a clean change, writes a test.

The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!

Stack Overflow Blogby Ryan Donovan5d ago

With fall upon us, it’s time to pumpkin spice up your life with the tasty results of the 2026 Developer Survey.

A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective

Stack Overflow Blogby Erin Yepis10d ago

We are on the precipice of brand new results from the 2026 Developer Survey. We have 15 years of data and insights from this survey at our fingertips that shows more than just what one year’s...

Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.

Stack Overflow Blogby Alex Lato, Peter O'Connor11d ago

Imagine a customer asks whether your product supports their use case and how it handles their data. You check the enablement page. It says yes.

Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal

Stack Overflow Blogby Caroline Thomas11d ago

While most platforms stick to storing or retrieving your content, Stack Internal helps you and your AI agents make higher quality decisions by delivering knowledge that is context-aware, vetted by...

Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings

Stack Overflow Blogby Erin Yepis11d ago

We are on the precipice of brand new results from the 2026 Developer Survey. We have 15 years of data and insights from this survey at our fingertips that shows more than just what one year’s...

Why model versioning is not enough for production AI

Stack Overflow Blogby Silu Panda13d ago

Imagine a documentation assistant that starts timing out after a routine retrieval change. The model is the same. The service is healthy. Every deployment check passed.

From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents

Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor, David Gibson26d ago

It’s been three months since we launched Stack Overflow for Agents, an API-first knowledge exchange for agents, and we’ve learned a lot in that time.

(Re)introducing Developer Story

Stack Overflow Blogby Philippe Beaudette10 Sept 2026

I won’t bury the good news here: Stack Overflow is bringing back the Developer Story. Time for a short history lesson: once upon a time, we had a feature called Developer Story (“Dev Story”)—think...

Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6

Stack Overflow Blogby Carrie Koos3 Sept 2026

To build an enterprise AI strategy that scales, teams need an organizational memory they can trust.

The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)

Stack Overflow Blogby Eira May3 Sept 2026

In this episode, Stack Overflow Director of Platform Engineering Peter O'Connor continues his conversation with Andi Gutmans, this time digging into what changes when you're running dozens or...

Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization

Stack Overflow Blogby Phoebe Sajor25 Aug 2026

Praveen explains why his team moved off GraphRAG in favor of a tree-structured memory for faster incremental updates and how they balance retrieval freshness, latency budgets, and access control at...