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Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
 • Gergely Orosz
The Pulse: Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?
Anthropic’s new model, Fable, has restrictions many users find unacceptable. Also: a new trend of smart model routing, Coinbase’s core service has no…
 • Gergely Orosz
State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are…
 • Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower reflects on his journey from self-taught technician to Google Distinguished Engineer, sharing lessons on open source, Kubernetes, AI…
 • Gergely Orosz
2:51:09
Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is…
 • Gergely Orosz

May 2026

The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning…
 • Gergely Orosz
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins the show to discuss their explosive growth, the limits of AI coding tools, and why engineering judgment still…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:20:05
State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on software engineering jobs, the AI engineering boom, whether AI engineering is…
 • Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon
The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE
Negative feedback greets Google’s redesigned AI IDE, why Google’s product ecosystem is so chaotic, Meta cuts 10% of staff as it hits record revenue and…
 • Gergely Orosz
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
Alice Ryhl from Google’s Android Rust team explains why developers love Rust, and what makes the language so powerful for building reliable software.
 • Gergely Orosz
1:04:59
AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
Tradeoffs of AI tooling, why adopting AI at company-level is hard, what’s changed in two years, and more. The third and final part of a series analyzing…
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Also: a look into rising tech job losses, self-reporting 100% AI usage at big companies, vibe coding & agentic engineering merging, and more
 • Gergely Orosz
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