Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Marc Benioff is the CEO and co-founder of Salesforce. Benioff joins Big Technology Podcast for a wide ranging discussion on AI agents, automation, and the future of labor. In this episode, we discuss his vision for AI agents and how they'll transform the way companies interact with customers. Tune in to hear why Benioff believes the future isn't about personal AI assistants, but rather company-specific agents built on robust data systems that can take effective action on our behalf. We also cover his thoughts on Microsoft's Copilot, Klarna's provocative statements about abandoning traditional software, whether he'll sell Time Magazine, and what happened with Elon's purchase of Twitter. Hit play for an illuminating conversation about the future of work, enterprise software, and how AI might create a new era of business productivity.

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Pat Tamburrino, Jr., Chief Administrative Officer at Noblereach Foundation and former Chief of Staff to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at United States Department of Defense joins the show to discuss what it takes to attract top talent into government roles in today’s environment. We also discuss the future of hybrid work in government and why the next generation in particular is poised to solve some of the most complex problems of our time.

Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering and eventually came to the states for his masters. Outside of running a company, he has 2 daughters and enjoys playing games and observing their patterns of learning, which applies to his current venture.

Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community.

This is the creation story of Yellowdig.

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Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird, a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog.

Find Fabrizio’s blog here. Some reading suggestions:

• What docs as code really means
• How I'm using AI as a technical writer
• Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means)

Find Fabrizio on LinkedIn or GitHub.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Talk Python rewritten in Quart
• PyPI now supports digital attestations
• Django Rusty Templates
• PEP 639 is now supported by PYPI
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/411

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's browser initiative 2) Can the ChatGPT browser succeed 3) DOJ wants to split off Chrome 4) Is spinning off Chrome a just punishment? 5) Would we be better off with Google services disconnected from each other? 6) Apple is trying to improve Siri with LLMS 7) Microsoft's copilot has struggled in the early going 8) Anthropic raises $4 billion 9) Was the Jaguar rebrand good?

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Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights.

Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization with a long history of protecting consumers’ rights and advocating for changes that make them safer.

Connect with Sukhi on LinkedIn or via her website. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Martijn Pieters, who’s earned over a million reputation by delivering wisdom to questions like Runtime of python's if substring in string.

Jordan Hefferan, Principal at LMI joins Breaking the Huddle to help us understand ways for organizations to remove the roadblocks that inhibit innovation and how LMI Forge is supporting this process for some of the most complex problems in government. PLUS, he tells us the one thing agencies can be doing today that will spark innovation within their teams.

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch, a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. 

This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss the tricks they use to keep up with all the latest languages and frameworks.

Your host, Kyle Mitofsky, is a Staff Software Engineer here at Stack Overflow. With over a decade of experience as an independent contributor, manager, and team leader, he's interviewed a wide range of people and is excited to be able to share these revealing and engaging conversations, WITHOUT the pressure of an actual job interview.

Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned professional, join us as we delve into meaningful discussions that can help shape your career. We're kicking off the series by chatting with a former colleague of Kyle's, Yaakov Ellis, a long time Stack Overflow community member and employee who currently  holds a role as a Staff Engineer at Intuit.