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How experienced engineers get unstuck in coding interviews
In-person algorithmic interviews are not disappearing from Big Tech and many top scaleups and startups, so it’s useful to know how to succeed at them…
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Gergely Orosz
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Mike Mroczka
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The Pulse #143: Creative ways to fund open source projects
Also: Microsoft’s US compensation bands leaked, Tailwind CSS team gets burnt using Claude Code, Meta and OpenAI in talent & comp war, and more
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 2
Which tools do software engineers use for project management, communication and collaboration, databases and backend infrastructure? Reader survey with…
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #142: Crazy-hours culture at AI startups
Also: Figma’s in-demand IPO could mark the end of the “tech IPO winter”, Amazon’s spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more
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Gergely Orosz
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What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so…
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Gergely Orosz
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The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
How are VC funding, hiring, and founder trends shifting—and what does it mean for software engineers at startups? Extensive data discussed with Peter…
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Gergely Orosz
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July 2025

Building great SDKs
A guide to creating SDKs that devs – and LLMs – will find a breeze to use, plus an overview of modern approaches for building and maintaining SDKs. By…
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Gergely Orosz
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Quentin Pradet
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The Pulse #141: Replit AI secretly deletes prod – oops!
Also: mystery solved about dozens of outages on 10 June, reflections on a year at OpenAI, and more
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Gergely Orosz
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Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho, CTO of DX, shares findings from 180+ companies on how AI is really impacting dev productivity, what most teams get wrong, and why measuring…
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Gergely Orosz
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Why reliability is hard at scale: learnings from infrastructure outages
What are the lessons of large outages at Heroku, Google Cloud, and Neon? Plus, how responses to outages can be as informative as incidents themselves…
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Gergely Orosz
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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.
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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