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The Pulse #153: Is Microsoft too early to agentic OS – like with smartphones?
Also: inside Cursor’s unique engineering culture, five AI fakers caught in one month by an employer, and more. Plus: early applications for The…
Nov 13
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Gergely Orosz
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Netflix’s Engineering Culture
Peek inside Netflix’s engineering culture with CTO Elizabeth Stone, as she shares how the company has no formal performance reviews, learns from…
Nov 12
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Gergely Orosz
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The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: a recap
Reflections on publishing The Software Engineer’s Guidebook two years ago, which has sold around 40,000 copies. Also: an unexpected trip to Mongolia to…
Nov 11
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #152: Cursor and GitHub double down on agents
Also: AI-assisted interviews at Meta, pay for Directors of Engineering at VC-funded startups, and is OpenAI inflating the bubble? And more
Nov 6
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Gergely Orosz
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From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
I sit down with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Swift, and Mojo, to discuss how better language and compiler design can open the door to faster, more…
Nov 5
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Gergely Orosz
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Tech jobs market 2025, part 3: job seekers’ stories
Details on the state of hiring from software engineers and EMs in the market for a new job. Insights on what’s happening from recruitment platforms…
Nov 4
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Gergely Orosz
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October 2025
The Pulse #151: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
Also: OpenAI becomes for-profit and takes on Chrome, NVIDIA the biggest Big Tech by a distance, Citibank annoys premium customers for weeks with…
Oct 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani
Google’s Head of Chrome Developer Experience, Addy Osmani, shares how AI is transforming the way we code—accelerating development while still relying on…
Oct 29
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Gergely Orosz
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San Francisco is back as the world’s leading tech hub
Impressions from a week in San Fran spent visiting engineering teams at Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, Wispr, Factory, and more
Oct 28
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: AWS takes down a good part of the internet
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global…
Oct 23
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Gergely Orosz
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What is good software architecture?
What good architecture looks like, how to improve your skill at building it –and why Architects are not always the answer. Guest post by Matthew…
Oct 21
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Gergely Orosz
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Matthew Hawthorne
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Google’s engineering culture
Elin Nilsson and I unpack how Google’s engineering culture, tools, and systems actually work behind the scenes.
Oct 15
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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