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Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling…
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What’s Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 4
Is the landmark software engineering book ‘The Mythical Man-Month’ still relevant today, and what’s changed during half a century of computing in dev…
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The Pulse #132: “Apple Tax” must end NOW, court rules
Also: Judge says Apple ignored a court injunction and lied under oath, Cursor’s incredible growth comes with AI troubles, and more
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April 2025

How to work better with Product, as an Engineer with Ebi Atawodi
Ebi Atawodi, Director at YouTube Studio, shares strategies from Uber and Netflix on building strong product-engineering partnerships, fostering trust…
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Robotics for software engineers: humanoid robots
Why are humanoid robots becoming popular, and which skills make for a great robotics engineer? Guest post by Humanoid Robot Learning Researcher, Sandor…
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Sandor Felber
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Building Reddit’s iOS and Android app
Reddit’s mobile engineers share how they completely rebuilt the iOS and Android app, introducing a new core tech stack, modern architecture, and…
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More than one million readers
A massive milestone hit, which seemed barely possible when I launched The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter a little over 3 years ago...
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The Pulse #131: why is every company is launching its own coding agent?
Also: CVE program nearly axed, restored at the 11th hour, Rippling rescinds signed offer the candidate-to-join already handed in their resignation, and…
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Working at Amazon as a software engineer – with Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson, formerly Tech Director at Amazon, shares an inside look at Amazon's engineering culture—from hiring and promotions to team autonomy and…
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Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?
We might be seeing the end of remote interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial weeks and longer trial periods. Could…
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The Pulse #130: Google releases AI-powered IDE
Also: Git turns 20, a new trend of AI cost saving pressure at developer agencies, John Carmack on how LLMs will impact the industry, and more
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The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
Stanford professor John Ousterhout explains why thoughtful software design matters more than ever as AI tools transform coding practices and developer…
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