The Stack Overflow Podcast

Open source for awkward robots

Ryan is joined by Jan Liphardt,  CEO and co-founder of OpenMind, to chat about the rapidly evolving world of humanoid robotics and what it means for humans, why OpenMind is building an open source operating system for robots that processes logic in natural language, and how putting Asimov’s Laws on the blockchain might be the key to robotics guardrails. Episode notes:  OpenMind [https://openmind.com/]’s OM1 is an open source OS for robots that allows robots to perceive, adapt, and act within human environments.  Connect with Jan on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-liphardt/] and GitHub [https://github.com/jliphard]. This week’s shoutout goes to user Sean [https://stackoverflow.com/users/5351721/sean], who won a Lifejacket badge for their answer to Creating the simplest HTML toggle button? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76837048/creating-the-simplest-html-toggle-button]. TRANSCRIPT [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/12/open-source-for-awkward-robots/] 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].

Even the chip makers are making LLMs

Ryan welcomes Kari Briski, NVIDIA’s VP of Generative AI Software for Enterprise, to the show to explore how a chip manufacturer got into the model development game. They discuss NVIDIA’s co-design feedback loop between model builders and hardware architects, share insights on precision model training and memory management systems, and take a look at the roadmap and development of NVIDIA’s fully open-source Nemotron.  Episode notes:  Nemotron [https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron] is a family of open models with open weights, training data, and recipes for building specialized AI agents.You can learn more on their Hugging Face [https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/nvidia-nemotron-v3] page or at NVIDIA GTC [https://nvda.ws/3NVv7OT] on March 16-19.  Connect with Kari on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/karibriski/]. Congrats to user The4thIceman [https://stackoverflow.com/users/2038801/the4thiceman] for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How to Center Text in Pygame [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23982907/how-to-center-text-in-pygame]. TRANSCRIPT [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/10/even-the-chip-makers-are-making-llms/] 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].

Building brains for bulldozers

Ryan chats with Kevin Peterson, CTO of Bedrock Robotics, about the evolution of self-driving technology and why robotics is now advancing; how real data is still relevant but simulation becomes essential for scale; and the future of robotics in addressing labor shortages and enhancing productivity. Episode notes: Bedrock Robotics [https://bedrockrobotics.com/] creates technology that upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling autonomous operation for construction machinery.  Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peterson-a783612/] and Twitter [https://x.com/kevinmpeterson1].  Congrats to user charlie [https://stackoverflow.com/users/20734823/charlie] for winning a Necromancer badge [https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/17/necromancer] on their answer to Linking Rust application with a dynamic library not in the runtime linker search path [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40602708/linking-rust-application-with-a-dynamic-library-not-in-the-runtime-linker-search]. TRANSCRIPT [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/06/building-brains-for-bulldozers/] 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].

AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs containers and sandboxes

SPONSORED BY DOCKER In this sponsored episode, Ryan chats with Mark Cavage, President and COO of Docker, joins the show to dive into hardened containers and agent sandboxes. They discuss what it means for a container to be hardened, how agents are starting to look a lot like microservices, and where containers fit into agentic workflows now and in the future.  Episode notes Docker Hardened Images [https://www.docker.com/products/hardened-images/] are minimal and secure containers. They’re free and available for most applications in the Docker registry.  Docker for AI [https://www.docker.com/solutions/docker-ai/] provides an easy way to build, run, and secure AI agents.  Connect with Mark on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcavage/].  Congrats Populist badge winner humblebee [https://stackoverflow.com/users/4859404/humblebee] for answering How to open/run YML compose file? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44364916/how-to-open-run-yml-compose-file/44365895#44365895]. 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].

No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP

Ryan sits down with Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic and Model Context Protocol co-creator David Soria Parra to talk the evolution of MCP from local-only to remote connectivity, how security and privacy fit into their work with OAuth2 for authentication and authorization, and how they’re keeping MCP completely open-source and widely available by moving it to the Linux Foundation.  Episode notes: The Model Context Protocol [https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro] (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems created by Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/]. You can keep up with—or join—the work the MCP community is doing at their Discord server [https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/communication#discord].  Connect with David on Twitter [https://x.com/dsp_].  Today’s shoutout goes to Populist badge winner competent_tech [https://stackoverflow.com/users/1002323/competent-tech] for their answer to How do I review a PR assigned to me in VS 2022 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70292639/how-do-i-review-a-pr-assigned-to-me-in-vs-2022]. TRANSCRIPT [https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/03/no-need-for-ctrl-c-when-you-have-mcp/] 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].