Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Tyler Wells lives outside of Austin, TX. He moved there 4 years ago, but spent most of this time in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Outside of tech, he is married with a family. His 3 kids are heavily involved in sports and extracurricular activities, which keeps them all pretty busy. But, when he has time, he is into cooking. He thinks of it as a nerdy endeavor, eating at a fancy restaurant and going home to try to recreate the dish.

At the sunset of his prior company, Tyler and his co-founders started digging into the AI Code Editor, Cursor, and how the agent side of things could increase the power and speed of coding. Through the shutdown, they decided to start something new.

This is the creation story of Braingrid.

Sponsors

• PropelAuth
• Tecla
• Speakeasy
• QA Wolf
• SnapTrade

Links

• https://www.braingrid.ai/
• https://propeldata.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerswells/

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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.

David Baszucki is the CEO of Roblox. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the company envisions generative AI playing into game creation on Roblox. Tune in to hear his vision for a future where users can prompt entire game experiences and modify them in real time using AI. We also cover child safety concerns, Hindenburg Research allegations, and whether parents should give their kids money to spend on Roblox. Hit play for an insightful conversation about the intersection of gaming, AI, and the future of creative digital experiences.

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Akash Mandavilli, Co-founder of GovEagle joins the show to explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the government contracting process. He also shares insights into how AI can accelerate proposal development, improve accuracy, and help organizations navigate the evolving landscape of government acquisitions and he covers trends in AI adoption, strategies for winning contracts, and the balance between automation and relationship-building in procurement. 

Anthony Eden is a gray beard in terms of internet time, being around when Netscape was released. He was studying music at the University of Miami, and decided to build a website to show off his music and other peoples work - and was hooked. Outside of tech, he grew up surfing, living in Hawaii, France and now Florida. He enjoys writing software for fun - when he has time - and playing board games with this kids - when they are around.

In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple.

This is the creation story of DNSimple.

Sponsors

• PropelAuth
• Tecla
• Speakeasy
• QA Wolf
• SnapTrade

Links

• https://dnsimple.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeden/

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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. 

Topics covered in this episode:

• pysqlscribe
• A map of Python
• Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
• The features of Python's help() function
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/423

Jon Baba, Senior Vice President of the Defense Markets at LMI joins the show to discuss the evolving defense landscape and how technology, strategy, and efficiency are converging to shape the future of national security. We also discuss the new administration's defense priorities, including homeland defense and deterrence in Asia the role of AI and emerging technologies in increasing military efficiency and readiness.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Siri’s poor performance 2) Amazon leaves Apple in the dust 3) Should Apple replace Siri with ChatGPT? 4) Apple’s market cap is closer to $4 trillion than $3 trillion 5) Microsoft and OpenAI’s evolving relationship 6) Why AI wrappers are rising 7) Will AI take our jobs... now?

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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.