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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 #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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How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Shopify's Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, shares how the company is using internal LLMs, unlimited AI tokens, and custom tooling to figure out how…
Jul 2
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Gergely Orosz
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check
How are devs at AI startups and in Big Tech using AI tools, and what do they think of them? A broad overview of the state of play in tooling, with…
Jul 1
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Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering
How to think about today’s AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler…
Jun 24
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Birgitta Boeckeler
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