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The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
I sit down with Grady Booch to put today’s AI automation claims in historical context and explain why software engineering is entering another golden…
Feb 4
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Gergely Orosz
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Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools
Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review…
Feb 3
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Gergely Orosz
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January 2026
The Pulse #161: open source projects overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports
Also: AI agents keep changing engineers’ working styles, layoffs at big and profitable companies, “AI-native” techies increasingly in demand, and more
Jan 29
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Gergely Orosz
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The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
Listen now (114 mins) | How Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (formerly: Clawd), builds and ships like a full team by centering his development…
Jan 28
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Gergely Orosz
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Inside a five-year-old startup’s rapid AI makeover
Craft Docs resisted AI hype as a nimble, well-run startup – but has just made a sharp pivot to AI, building a universal agentic tool everyone there now…
Jan 27
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #160: Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead”
Also: New trend of staff+ engineers and managers using AI a lot, replacing a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code, and more
Jan 22
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Gergely Orosz
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How AWS S3 is built
A behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon S3 is designed for durability and correctness at massive scale, drawing on over a decade of operating one of the…
Jan 21
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Gergely Orosz
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The Product-Minded Engineer: The importance of good errors and warnings
Product engineers are more in demand than ever, but how do you become one? New book, “The Product-Minded Engineer”, offers a guide. An interview with…
Jan 20
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #159: Long-running agents and orchestrating lots of them
One trend this year may well be experimentation with agent orchestration and long-running agents – which is already underway. Also: Claude Code bans…
Jan 15
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Gergely Orosz
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Design Systems for Software Engineers
A comprehensive guide to design system engineering (DSE): when it’s relevant, how AI changes things, and pointers for getting started. From Michael…
Jan 13
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Gergely Orosz
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Michael Abernethy
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The Pulse #158: new ways of coding with AI tools
The “Ralph method” and running multiple agents at once gain popularity, AI job cuts at dev tooling and education providers, four nines of uptime after…
Jan 8
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Gergely Orosz
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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry
Jan 6
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Gergely Orosz
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