Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosystem healthy, the challenges OS communities have faced with the rise of AI, and the implications of data privacy and user choice in the age of multi-agent AI systems. 

Episode notes:

Mozilla.ai is building the agent platform that helps organizations safely automate real work with AI agents. 

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

Congrats to Populist badge winner Philipp Merkle, who won it for their answer to How to set the -Xmx when start running a jar file?.

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Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible. 

Episode notes:

Cozystack is a Kubernetes-based framework for building a private cloud environment.

Connect with Andrei on Linkedin. 

Today’s shoutout goes to user Adam for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Regex replace text but exclude when text is between specific tag. 

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Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people interact with advertisements and the web as a whole, and the challenges that proactive AI agents may face when being integrated into workflows and personal internet use. 

Episode notes:

Yutori is building AI agents that can reliably handle everyday digital tasks on your behalf on the web.

Connect with Dhruv via his website. 

Congrats to the winner of today’s Populist badge, user Don Kirkby, who earned it with their answer to Find all references to an object in python.

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Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities.

Episode notes:

Vite is a frontend build tool powering the next generation of web applications. 

Check out all of the work Evan is doing at his company VoidZero. 

For more on the origins of Vite, watch the newly-released Cult.repo’s documentary. 

If you’d rather hear Evan talk about Vue.js, listen to the podcast we published with him earlier this summer. 

Today’s shoutout goes to user dbush for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How does printing a union itself and not its member work in C?.

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Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI. 

Episode notes:

Endor Labs is AppSec for the software development revolution, helping you pinpoint critical risks whether your code is written by a human or AI. 

Connect with Dimitri on LinkedIn.

Today’s shoutout is for user skovorodkin, whose answer for Elegant Python code for Integer Partitioning  was so good, it outscored the accepted answer. 

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Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities of and need for data normalization, and the role that AI and MCP plays in the future of API functionality. 

Episode notes: 

Merge connects you to any third-party system for fast, secure integrations for your products and agents.

Connect with Gil on LinkedIn and X. 

Shoutout to user Abhijit for winning a Lifeboat badge on their answer for Complex numbers in python.

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In the second part of this two-part Leaders of Code episode, Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, and Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google Developer Experiences, dive beyond AI hype to explore the shifts reshaping how engineering teams operate and scale. From the critical role of documentation quality in AI workflows to the cultural transformations needed for successful adoption, Peter and Ryan discuss the deeper implications of integrating AI into modern software development practices.

The discussion also:

• Explores how poor documentation creates problems as AI systems learn and repeat mistakes, making high-quality documentation essential for successful AI integrations.
• Covers how consistent tools and processes become more important when using AI, and why leaders should prioritize helping teams learn and experiment with AI tools instead of just measuring productivity.
• Offers practical advice for leaders on how to create environments where developers can learn and build confidence with AI tools.

Notes:

• Listen to Part 1 of the conversation here.
• Connect with Peter O’Connor and Ryan J Salva.

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Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new standard for agents, the importance of observability and security in AI systems, and the importance for businesses and entrepreneurs to leverage opportunities in the agentic AI space now. 

Episode notes: 

Kong is an all-in-one API platform for AI and agentic workflows.

Marco previously joined the podcast in 2024. 

Connect with Marco on Twitter.

Congratulations to user Mark for receiving a Lifeboat badge for their answer to Visual Studio Code: Expand the horizontal bar for scrolling tabs.

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Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impact of AI on dev experience, and how Spotify approaches platform engineering and standardization to help teams solve for specific needs. 

Episode notes: 

Backstage is an open-source IDP by Spotify that reduces everyday friction, cognitive overhead, and operational toil for developers.

We previously talked to the Backstage team in 2022.

Poor Ryan. If only he had Backstage at his last job. 

You know what makes Backstage even better? Our Stack Overflow for Teams integration. 

Connect with Pia on LinkedIn.

Markus Pscheidt gets today’s shoutout for winning the Populist badge with their answer to Dynamic tag values for the Counter metric in Micrometer.

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Jeff Hollan, director of product at Snowflake, joins Ryan to discuss the role that data plays in making AI and AI agents better. Along the way, they discuss how a database leads to an AI platform, Snowflake’s new data marketplace, and the role data will play in AI agents. 

Episode notes:

Snowflake provides a fully-managed data platform that developers can build AI apps on. 

We’re happy to have Stack Exchange data available on the Snowflake Marketplace.  

Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

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