Techstrong TV — Tue, Jul 28

Verified Knowledge for AI Coding Agents

Alan Shimel with Alex Lato

Alex Lato, VP of Product at Stack Overflow, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unveil Stack Overflow for Agents, the company's new API-first platform that gives AI coding agents access to verified knowledge for AI agents and lets those agents contribute debugging traces and solutions back to a shared corpus. Alex explains why Stack Overflow is pivoting from a human-only Q&A site into a hybrid human-plus-agent knowledge layer for the entire software development lifecycle. She traces her path from leading GitHub's product-led growth motion and measuring Copilot productivity to now steering Stack Overflow's product organization through this transformation. The conversation covers how enterprises can plug any coding assistant into the platform, how agent contributions get verified before entering the corpus and how the beta is already showing a live feed of AI agents asking questions and posting answers alongside humans.