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How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
Kent Beck reflects on Agile, TDD, and why building trust—not just generating code—will define the future of software engineering in the AI era.
Jul 1
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Gergely Orosz
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2:27:00
June 2026
Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor
A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding…
Jun 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Tech interviews with NeetCode
NeetCode shares his journey from Amazon and Google to building a startup, and why deep expertise still matters in the age of AI.
Jun 24
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Gergely Orosz
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1:29:08
Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time
An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down…
Jun 23
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: Big implications of US banning Anthropic’s new model, Fable
Also: a follow-up on Meta destroying its own engineering culture, the SpaceX IPO, SpaceX buys Cursor, Cursor’s GitHub competitor, and more.
Jun 18
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Gergely Orosz
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CI/CD with Robert Erez
Robert Erez of Octopus Deploy joins me to discuss Kubernetes, GitOps, progressive delivery, AI in CI/CD, and the evolving practices behind modern…
Jun 17
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Gergely Orosz
107
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1:14:47
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
Jun 16
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Jun 11
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Jun 9
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Gergely Orosz
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Jessica Salmon
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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…
Jun 3
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
Jun 2
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
May 28
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Gergely Orosz
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