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Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s…
Jun 10
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The Pulse #140: Does Cursor make developers less effective?
Also: the complicated story of the Windsurf sale, beginning of the end for VC-subsidized tokens, and more.
Jul 17
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Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge shares why Google struggles with platforms, how AI coding is deceptively hard, and why the "AI Fixer" role could be one spreading inside…
Jul 16
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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack?
Which tools do software engineers use for backend development, frontend, infrastructure, AI tooling, and more, today? Reader survey, with feedback and…
Jul 15
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #139: Section 174 is reversed! Or is it?
Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is. Also: why Meta is “going to war” to…
Jul 10
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What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh
Former Amazon Principal Engineer Steve Huynh shares what it takes to reach the Principal level, why the jump Principal is so tough at Amazon, and how…
Jul 9
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Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering
Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting…
Jul 8
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Sandor Felber
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The 10x “overemployed” engineer
A software engineer worked at several AI startups at the same time, without his employers knowing anything about it. Then one frustrated founder who…
Jul 3
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Gergely Orosz
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