Best The Rag Company Podcasts (2025)

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BIG Truck Detailing! | Truck Wash & Coating Prep + Q&A 1:57:29

1d ago1:57:29

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Today, we've rolled a BIG Dodge Ram 3500 truck with a Cummins diesel into The Rag Company wash bay to be detailed by Gabe! While he's busy doing that, Sydni and Dane will be hard at work answering your detailing questions in real-time! Want to catch the next live Q&A? Tune into ⁠⁠⁠The Rag Company YouTube Channel ⁠⁠⁠Thursdays at 2pm Mountain Time (4…

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Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify 30:05

1d ago30:05

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Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page, including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick. Connect with Glen Coates on LinkedIn and X. Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C#.By Ryan Donovan, Glen Coates

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Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success 32:03

3d ago32:03

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The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively. Explores how Abnormal Security utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan …

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Boston Calling 2025 (5/27/25) 52:47

4d ago52:47

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A local music recap of Boston Calling 2025 featuring interviews with Bebe Stockwell, Battlemode, Pinklids, Simon Robert French, Dalton & The Sheriffs, Nate Perry & Ragged Company, and Copilot. Learn more about Boston Calling at www.BostonCalling.com.By John Shea

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“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents 32:29

5d ago32:29

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Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here. Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Smrutiranjan Sahu, who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter.…

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WBIT #8: Typescript for gut biomes 44:40

5d ago44:40

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Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. Connect with Tyler on Twitter.By Stack Overflow

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Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so. 37:02

9d ago37:02

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Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things. Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn. Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error.…

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Ask Us Detailing Questions! | LIVE Car Detail + Q&A with Sydni, Delaney & Dane 1:58:13

9d ago1:58:13

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The Rag Company is ready to brighten your day by answering your car detailing questions! Dane, Sydni and her daughter Delaney are all here to make things fun! In the wash bay, you'll find Sydni's awesome SRT Jeep Grand Cherokee getting the full detail treatment as the crew answer your most pressing car care questions! Want to catch the next live Q&…

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South Shore Femme Fest 2025 (5/20/25) 56:03

11d ago56:03

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Gracie Grace and Erin McKenzie promote the 3rd annual Femme Fest happening on June 1st at Stellwagen Beer Company in Marshfield, sponsored by AZ Studios. This year's lineup includes: Gracie Grace & All The Good Boys, The Rins, Total Strangers, Copilot, Briar Circle, Valerie Barretto, Nikki & The Barn Boys, and more!! Follow their IG for more inform…

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Durable execution: autosave for your microservices 22:35

12d ago22:35

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DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures. Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn. Connect with Qian on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned t…

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Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS 29:17

16d ago29:17

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The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building. Connect with Christophe on LinkedIn. Instead of a badge, we have a question for you: If you are a developer who is working with AI age…

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Detailing Questions w/ Sydni & Dane | Live Car Detail + Q&A 1:56:58

16d ago1:56:58

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Dane & Sydni are in The Rag Company Garage and ready to IMPROVE your day by answering your car care questions! To make things more fun, you'll find Carson in the wash bay detailing a dirty Toyota Rav4 that just got back from a little off-roading! Want to catch the next live Q&A? Tune into ⁠The Rag Company YouTube Channel ⁠Thursdays at 2pm Mountain …

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Next-level observability: live breakpoint debugging 26:27

18d ago26:27

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Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster. Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger. Connect with Henrik Rexed on LinkedIn or check out Is it Observable on YouTube.…

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Better Fires (5/13/25) 55:26

18d ago55:26

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Boston pop band Better Fires performs on the WATD Tiny Stage to promote their album "Almost Mine". Learn more at https://www.betterfires.com.By John Shea

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Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI? 29:08

19d ago29:08

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watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub. We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready. Find Maryam on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answe…

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Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns 28:01

23d ago28:01

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Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions. Connect with Abby on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android program…

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How should you Detail a Minivan? | Auto Detailing Q&A 1:48:38

23d ago1:48:38

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Anthony & Sydni are in the studio and pondering the question: What's the best way to detail a minivan? This week Dane is back in the detailer's seat and tackling producer Nick's family hauler, a 2007 Toyota Sienna minivan! Enjoy watching the car wash process at work while asking the crew whatever detail product, techn…

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Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact 30:32

24d ago30:32

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with bu…

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Nate Perry & Ragged Company (5/6/25) 51:39

25d ago51:39

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Nate Perry and Ragged Company perform on the 95.9 WATD Almost Famous Tiny Stage to promote their upcoming set at Boston Calling 2025 and also talk about their brand new single "Count on You". Learn more at https://nateperryandraggedcompany.com.By John Shea

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Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect 30:26

26d ago30:26

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Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs. Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.…

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Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture 34:54

30d ago34:54

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SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech. Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at …

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Would you Let a Stranger Detail YOUR car? | Detailing Q&A 1:55:31

1M ago1:55:31

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane & Anthony are ready to answer all your auto detailing questions! In today's show we ponder the question: Would you let another person detail your car? Of course, many people take their cars to detailers every day, but would YOU? (Or have you?) We'd love to hear about it! In a surprising turn of events, Anthony ha…

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Ryan Sweezey (4/29/25) 50:45

1M ago50:45

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Massachusetts/Vermont singer-songwriter Ryan Sweezey performs on the WATD Tiny Stage and talks about his new single "Sleepless Nights" and his current album "Out Searching". Learn more at https://ryansweezeymusic.com.By John Shea

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“We’re not replacing you; we’re with you”: Where AI meets infrastructure 21:22

1M ago21:22

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The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch. Find Greg on LinkedIn.By Greg Fallon, Ryan Donovan

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Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX 17:55

1M ago17:55

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Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor. Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN. Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare. Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!…

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Answering YOUR Detailing Questions (w/ Justin Labato) | Detailing Q&A 1:56:49

1M ago1:56:49

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane & Anthony are ready to answer all of your auto detailing questions! In today's program, spring is in the air! With that in mind, Gabe has brought his classic Toyota Pickup into the studio for a photoshoot with Justin Labato of Car Candy! Enjoy watching the creative detailing process at work while Dane & Anthony a…

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Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence 23:44

1M ago23:44

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They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness. Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments. Episode notes: Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk.…

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Casey Ruth Little (4/22/25) 54:49

1M ago54:49

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Singer-songwriter Casey Ruth Little performs on the WATD Tiny Stage to talk about her debut EP coming out this summer. Learn more at https://caseyruthlittle.com.By John Shea

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Visually orchestrating data diagnostics but platform agnostic 23:02

1M ago23:02

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Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents. Find Florian on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!By Stack Overflow

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Generating components, not tokens 23:59

1M ago23:59

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Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. Connect with Laly on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog contributor Charlie Martin for their answer to How does this proof, that the halting problem is undecidable, work? .By Stack Overflow

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NEW TRCMA Products Tested w/ Dane, Lucas & Anthony | Detailing Q&A 1:57:08

1M ago1:57:08

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane Hennen & Lucas Blaine are ready to answer all of your auto detailing questions! In today's program, Spring has arrived and we're STILL talking about NEW product releases from TRCMA 2025! To help demonstrate some of these new releases, Anthony Fisher takes over the TRC wash bay with his 2nd Gen Ford Raptor and som…

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WBIT #7: Exploring WebAssembly with the first SO user to get 10k rep 36:28

2M ago36:28

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Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020. While Michael may have been the first user to get 10,000 rep, he’s not stopping there. His current employer, neuRealities, is still in stealth mode, shhhh. Find Michael on his blog and possibly elsewhere.…

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Sarah Blacker (4/15/25) 55:13

2M ago55:13

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Sarah Blacker on the WATD Tiny Stage this week. Her album "In Waves" is celebrating it's 10th anniversary and you can celebrate on April 26th at Club Passim in Cambridge. Learn more at https://www.sarahblacker.com.By John Shea

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How AI can prevent clinician burnout 18:14

2M ago18:14

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Lunar Analytics specializes in AI-powered claim optimization and healthcare solutions. Connect with Richard on LinkedIn. Knowtex allows healthcare providers to automate clinical workflows with generative AI. Connect with Caroline on LinkedIn. Delve Deep Learning provides artificial intelligence solutions for public affairs. Connect with Jeff on Lin…

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Putting New TRCMA Products to Use w/ Sydni, Dane & Anthony | Detailing Q&A 1:56:56

2M ago1:56:56

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane Hennen & Sydni Brae Gwinn are ready to answer all of your auto detailing questions! In today's program, we're talking about NEW product releases from TRCMA 2025! To help demonstrate some of these new releases at The Rag Company, Anthony Fisher takes over the TRC wash bay with a filthy Honda CR-V and the Obsessed …

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How do you fact-check an AI? 26:46

2M ago26:46

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Vectara is a platform-as-a-service that allows users to build AI assistants and agents. Get started with their docs. This interview was recorded at HumanX last month. They are gearing up for next year’s conference on April 6-9, 2026. Follow Amr on LinkedIn.By Ryan Donovan, Amr Awadallah

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“There is a real cost to moving fast”: Using AI to accelerate drug discovery 25:23

2M ago25:23

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They also: Explore key challenges engineering leaders face, including data capacity, relevance, and throttling issues. Highlight how emerging AI tools and applications are transforming software engineering practices. Episode notes: Connect with Maureen Makes on LinkedIn. Learn more about Recursion and their open roles here. Read about Knowledge Sol…

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WBIT #6: Be curious, ask questions, and don’t argue with JavaScript 44:30

2M ago44:30

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When this episode was recorded, Jesse worked for WaveSeven Consulting, which provides business advisory and project delivery support for media and entertainment companies. He now works for ClickUp, same as previous Stack Overflow Podcast guest, RJ Tuit. Read Jesse’s hot takes on his blog. You can connect with Jesse as Jtomchak on all the socials.…

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Adam Frates (4/8/25) 46:56

2M ago46:56

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Singer-songwriter Adam Frates performs on the WATD Tiny Stage to promote his latest singles including a collaboration with G. Love. Learn more at https://adamfratesacoustic.com/.By John Shea

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Bottom of the first: A veteran VC’s take on the AI landscape 28:00

2M ago28:00

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Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies. He’s a coauthor of Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture. Tomasz was on the podcast back in 2023. Give it a listen! Explore Tomasz’s writing. Follow Tomasz on Lin…

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Is AI a bubble or a revolution? The answer is yes. 33:05

2M ago33:05

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2024 was a defining year for AI investment. Read the HumanX/Crunchbase report. You can learn more about HumanX or register for next year’s event, April 7-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Follow Stefan on LinkedIn. Follow Jager on LinkedIn.By Ryan Donovan, Stefan Weitz, Jager McConnell

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Dropping the Top on Car Washing with Anthony & Dane | Detailing Q&A 2:03:51

2M ago2:03:51

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Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane Hennen & Sydni Brae Gwinn are ready to answer all of your car & truck detailing questions! Welcome to Q&A Thursday, where Dane Hennen & Anthony Fisher are ready to answer all of your detailing questions! In today's program, the weather's heating up and Spring is here, so we're talking about how to clean those con…

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Mackenzie Lee Clement (4/1/25) 50:26

2M ago50:26

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Berklee trained Singer/Songwriter/Pianist Mackenzie Lee Clement performs on the WATD Tiny Stage. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/mackenzieleeclementBy John Shea

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Boots on the ground: Holistic AI and Audioshake at HumanX 24:25

2M ago24:25

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Holistic AI is an AI governance platform that helps the enterprise adopt and scale AI. Audioshake uses AI to mix, master, and separate music and other audio content. Learn more about HumanX here. Feeling the FOMO? The event takes place again on April 7-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Early birds can register here. Connect with Raj on LinkedIn. Connect wi…

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“Are AI agents ready for the enterprise?” 28:20

2M ago28:20

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Deepak works on Amazon Q Developer, a GenAI-powered coding assistant that includes autonomous agents. Thinking, Fast and Slow by psychologist Daniel Kahneman is one of those books that’s a classic for a reason—and it’s more relevant to today’s AI landscape than you might think. Connect with Deepak on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Morten…

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AI is shifting focus from syntax to critical thinking 36:08

2M ago36:08

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They also: Emphasize the critical role of customer feedback in shaping products, highlighting how continuous feedback loops drive innovation and improvement. Explore how AI is empowering non-technical team members and enabling meaningful collaboration between developers and other departments. Discuss the potential of GenAI as a learning tool and th…

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Copilot (3/25/25) 50:00

2M ago50:00

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Copilot on the Tiny Stage to promote their new EP "Vroom Vroom Etc" and their upcoming performance at Boston Calling. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/copilotmusic.By John Shea

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Starting A Detailing Business In 2025 1:13:00

2M ago1:13:00

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In today’s show, Sydni shares her valuable insights gained from running her detailing business from her home garage. This comprehensive guide is packed with helpful tips and tricks for aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners alike. It serves as an excellent resource for anyone looking to start or refresh their detailing business.…

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“The power of the humble embedding” 29:04

2M ago29:04

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Pinecone is a purpose-built vector database. Get started with their docs here. Connect with Edo on LinkedIn.By Ryan Donovan, Edo Liberty

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An AI future free of slop 22:37

2M ago22:37

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Read more about Stack Overflow’s future here. Learn more about HumanX here. Missed it this year? The event takes place again on April 7-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Early birds can register here. Follow Prashanth on LinkedIn or explore his posts on our blog.By Ryan Donovan, Prashanth Chandrasekar

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