Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants.

Episode notes:

Retool is an enterprise AI AppGen platform for internal software development, allowing you to create apps, agents, and workflows with any LLM, datasource, or API.

David Hsu previously joined the podcast to complain about maintaining internal tools. 

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Today’s shoutout is for user Waseem Wisa, who won a Populist badge on their answer to Sass compiler throws 'undefined mixin' error when mixins are kept in seperate folder.

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Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency.

Episode notes:

monday.com is a work management platform that allows you to plan and execute work across departments with a unified, AI-first product suite.

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Congrats to Populist badge winner Vilx-, who received the badge for their answer to How do you provide a default type for generics?.

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Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. 

Episode notes: 

Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-designed LPU, the first chip built for inference. Check out their agent, Compound, which can search the web and run code.

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Congrats to user Bart Kiers for winning a Stellar Answer badge on their response to Regular expression to match a line that doesn't contain a word. 

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar chats with Ramprasad Rai, VP of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase & Co., about the unique challenges of implementing AI in an enterprise environment. They discuss how organizations can balance AI-driven productivity with strict compliance and security requirements by leveraging a community-driven knowledge system that grounds probabilistic AI tools in internal, trusted expertise.

The discussion also:

• Explores why AI models often hallucinate in enterprise environments due to a lack of internal context. 
• Highlights how Stack Overflow’s structured Q&A data provides ideal fine-tuning material for the next generation of AI models.

Notes

• Connect with Ramprasad Rai on LinkedIn.

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Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, the future of developer training as AI coding assistants become more popular, and the importance of critical thinking—especially for junior developers—in the age of AI.

Episode notes: 

Secure Code Warrior upskills development teams to help companies stay protected against potential cybersecurity threats.

Connect with Matias on Linkedin. 

Shoutout to Lifejacket badge winner Sergey Kalinichenko, who won the badge for their answer to K&R Code for getting an int.

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Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control.

Episode notes:

New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run software. Read their 2025 observability forecast. 

Connect with Nic on Linkedin or email him at [email protected].

Congratulations to user Yochai Timmer for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Reader/Writer Locks in C++. 

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Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code.

Episode notes:

Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on code changes, fix CI failures, and improve your PRs right from your PR page. 

Connect with Greg on LinkedIn and keep up with Graphite on their Twitter.  

This week’s shoutout goes to user xerad, who won an Investor badge by dropping a bounty on the question How to specify x64 emulation flag (EC_CODE) for shared memory sections for ARM64 Windows?.

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Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. 

Episode notes:

Kiro is AWS’ AI IDE that brings structure to AI coding with spec-driven development. 

Connect with Deepak on the Kiro Discord server and read more about spec-driven development on The New Stack. 

We last spoke to Deepak Singh in March about how enterprise-ready agents are.

Congratulations to user Whymarrh for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Git commits are duplicated in the same branch after doing a rebase. 

Learn more about the future of software engineering in the AI age on November 3rd, when our CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, speaks at a virtual OpenAI Forum.

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Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI.

Episode notes:

Linear is a tool for planning and building products that streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps.

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This episode’s shoutout goes to user ozz, who won a Populist badge for their answer to Column width not working in DataTables bootstrap.

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Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world.

Episode notes:

Resolve AI is building agents to help you troubleshoot alerts, manage incidents, and run your production systems. 

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