Author: Loïc Houssier, Eira May, Ben Matthews

Welcome to Leaders of Code, a new business segment of the Stack Overflow podcast. On this show, we chat with business, tech, and engineering leaders from forward-thinking companies across industries about their business strategies, the challenges and opportunities of building high-performing teams, driving innovation, leveraging the power of AI, and other key topics. Tune in every second Thursday for real-world success stories, actionable strategies, and fresh perspectives to help you navigate your leadership and growth journey.

In our very first episode, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar talks to Don Woodlock, Head of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, about the challenges in their AI journey and the critical role of a robust data strategy in any successful AI initiative.

They also:

• Discuss the importance of maintaining a human-centric approach when automating processes with GenAI, emphasizing trust-building as a top priority.
• Dive deep into specific use cases and real-world successes and obstacles in AI implementation, from data scalability to system integration.
• Share their perspectives on common misconceptions about AI in today’s landscape.

Episode notes:

• Connect with Don Woodlock on LinkedIn, explore his video series Code to Care, and learn more about InterSystems.
• Read more about Knowledge-as-a-service.
• Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with, Stack Overflow for Teams. 
• Read more about OverflowAPI, a subscription-based API service that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset to train and fine-tune large language models.

Warp is an intelligent terminal that combines AI tools and developer resources in one interface. Zach’s hope was to give more developers access to the arcane magic of the command line.

Connect with Zach on LinkedIn.

If you’re a terminal user, which one is your go-to and why? Let us know at podcast@stackoverflow.com. 

Postgres is an open-source database. EDB offers enterprise-grade features and support for Postgres from self-managed to fully-managed, cloud-based DBaaS.

Find Jezz on LinkedIn. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jonny, who won a Populist badge with their exceptional answer to quantile function for a vector of dates.

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Infineon is a global semiconductor company for power systems and IoT.

You can connect with Clark and Alexander on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hdsenevi for their answer on Unrecognized font family 'Roboto' - React Native iOS.

Semgrep is an AppSec platform that lets devs deploy static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scans. Explore their docs.

Tanya is the author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Alice and Bob Learn Application Security.

She’s also written for our blog:Three layers to secure a software development organization and Continuous delivery, meet continuous security.

Secure coding might be an issue of national security. 

Follow Tanya on LinkedIn or check out her website.

Stack Overflow user Reishin earned a Populist badge with their answer to piping from stdin to a python code in a bash script.

Smartling is an enterprise translation platform that includes AI-powered translation solutions.

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Kudos to Stack Overflow user Suleka_28, who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to convert logits to probability in binary classification in tensorflow.

Diffblue Cover is an AI agent for testing complex Java code at scale. Check out their docs to get started automating unit tests today.

This article will help you understand the difference between Diffblue Cover and Copilot.

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Stack Overflow user Keet Sugathadasa earned a Populist badge by answering a question in the CI/CD Collective: Gitlab CI CD variable are not getting injected while running gitlab pipeline.

CLEAR is an identity company trying to take the friction out of air travel (such as with TSA PreCheck, available through CLEAR), stadium events, and other experiences that require security screening. 

Find Caitlin on LinkedIn. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Patrick Pijnappel, who earned a Populist badge with their answer to Redirect all output to file using Bash on Linux?. It’s helped 230,000 people and counting.

Forerunner provides a platform for floodplain management. 

Do you also have gnarly caching issues? Check out an overview of how we use caching at Stack Overflow. 

If you want to connect with Lauren, head over to her LinkedIn page. 

Transcend is a data privacy and governance platform. See what they’re up to on their blog or dive into their docs.

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Stack Overflow user ivanavitdev earned a Populist badge with their exceptionally thoughtful answer to How to use toSorted() method in TypeScript.