The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

Home
Podcast
The Pulse
Deepdives
Announcements
Archive
About
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, creator of Kotlin and founder of CodeSpeak, shares lessons from designing Kotlin and why he’s building a new language to keep humans in…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:44:10
Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering
Steve Yegge on the 8 levels of AI adoption, why big companies may be doomed, and why he and many AI-adopters feel drained from using agents non-stop
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:17:04
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…
 • Gergely Orosz

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
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:54:04
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
1:18:13
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz and Michael Abernethy
© 2026 Gergely Orosz · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture