Recently Stack Overflow released the results of their annual developer survey. Today we'll go through it and possibly some others too:
Everyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. The Zoom link will be posted at 12 p.m. MDT.
The topic for today's (2026-08-11) chat is: When should a company have an internal software development team? Is there an ideal size or other factors that influence that decision? When is internal development better than paying for consultants and/or 3rd party software?
Inspired by me currently discussing this issue with two companies and having this discussion in the past. Would love to have a specific yes/no metric but haven't found one yet. My current answer is "it depends ...". I would love to hear others' thoughts on the subject.
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.
P.S. - The feature image is from Lumo, Proton's AI assistant. It took a couple prompts to get an image that was useable and it really struggled putting any correct text on the image. Thoughts?
Are there other emerging technologies in the computer world that you find interesting? Maybe even other implementations of AI outside of the current mainstream? AI, particularly LLMs, is obviously the hot topic of the day, but what about other innovations that are going on?
Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.