What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?

What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?

Ryan welcomes WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar to the show to chat about what happens—and what we should do—when agents start acting like humans online, how our internet is evolving to serve both human and agentic experiences from the same interface, and what we can do to differentiate and protect human actions online from malicious bot activity.  Episode notes:  WP Engine [https://wpengine.com/] hosts and manages over 5 million WordPress sites, combining enterprise-grade software, developer tools, and cutting-edge AI to support your website. Connect with Ramadass on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramadassprabhakar/] or Twitter [https://x.com/ramadassp]. Congrats to user Nama [https://stackoverflow.com/users/1093221/nama] on winning a Famous Question badge for asking how to store the spinner values into database? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8831349/how-to-store-the-spinner-values-into-database] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

You need reliable AI context for your site reliability

Ryan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service context, what good context engineering actually likes when AI is integrated into site reliability, and how the work of human SREs is shifting towards strategy and AI agent management. Episode notes:  Komodor [https://komodor.com/] is an autonomous AI SRE platform designed to troubleshoot, manage, and optimize Kubernetes-based cloud-native infrastructure.  Connect with Asaf on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/asaf-savich/].  Congrats to Populist badge winner joemaller [https://stackoverflow.com/users/503463/joemaller], who won the badge for answering Is there a Python equivalent to the 'which' command [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9877462/is-there-a-python-equivalent-to-the-which-command]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Partnerships can keep open source sustainable

Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflare’s distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond.  Episode notes: VoidZero [https://voidzero.dev/] is now officially a part of Cloudflare [https://www.cloudflare.com/]. You can read more about the recent acquisition here [https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare].  Connect with Evan on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanyou/] and X [https://x.com/evanyou]. Check out Evan’s previous episodes on the pod for a deep dive on the evolutions of Vite [https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/10/vite-is-like-the-united-nations-of-javascript/] and Vue.js [https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/15/the-future-of-vue-is-you-and-you/]. Connect with Dane on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/] and X [https://x.com/dok2001/]. Listen to Dane’s previous episode of Leaders of Code [https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/06/19/my-job-is-going-to-change-in-a-dramatic-way-exploring-the-future-of-the-internet-with-cloudflare/] to learn how Cloudflare is building a better internet.  Congrats to user Luis Sieira [https://stackoverflow.com/users/1430607/luis-sieira], who won a Stellar Answer badge for answering How to get the difference between two arrays in JavaScript? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1187518/how-to-get-the-difference-between-two-arrays-in-javascript]. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

The future of development is full-stack

Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” for quick prototypes to agentic engineering for enterprise-ready software, how enterprises can scale governance with guardrails like human-in-the-loop approval and control layers that go beyond the underlying LLM, and why Umesh predicts all developers will become someday become full-stack builders. Episode notes:  This episode was recorded at Snowflake Summit [https://www.snowflake.com/en/summit/]. You can learn more about CoCo and Snowflake’s other new releases on their website [https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/snowflake-coco/]. Connect with Umesh on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/umeshunni/] or reach out to him at Umesh.Unnikrishnan@snowflake.com Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, also sat down this us at this year’s Snowflake Summit to break down the five-stage framework his org used to go from "let chaos reign" to a repeatable, org-wide system for AI-assisted engineering. Listen to his episode of Leaders of Code [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/02/ai-coding-chaos-into-a-repeatable-playbook/].  Our sixteenth Annual Developer Survey is now open and we want to hear your thoughts on all things software. Take the survey now [https://take.survey.stackoverflow.co/jfe/form/SV_4GHunpL3IfJ3rRc?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=outreach&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2026&utm_content=launch-survey]! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Developers who move fast still need to do it together

At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting dev work towards higher-level strategy while increasing decision fatigue; why human taste, community feedback, and mentorship are becoming more essential than ever for developer careers; and the new GitHub Copilot announcements coming out of Microsoft, including the new GitHub Copilot app.  Episode notes:  This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build [https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home]. You can learn more about what they announced at the show and what’s new at GitHub here [https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-app-the-agent-native-desktop-experience/].  Listen to our other episodes recorded at Build on agentic workflows [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/10/building-more-than-just-an-agent-harness/] and responsible AI [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/14/your-ai-is-only-as-responsible-as-you-are/].  Connect with Cassidy on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidoo/] and X [https://x.com/cassidoo?lang=en].  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].