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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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1:33:41
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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
1:13:16
Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering (Robotics for software engineers, Part 3)
Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting…
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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