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Thriving as a Founding Engineer: Lessons from the Trenches
Being a founding engineer at an early-stage startup is a vastly different, broader role than many people think. Lessons from “serial” early-stage and…
Mar 26
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The Pulse #86: Is Shopify’s new “mastery” framework a response to higher interest rates?
The e-commerce giant is taking a new and different approach to career growth and promotions. Also: more evidence the tech job market is tougher, and AI…
Mar 21
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Gergely Orosz
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Senior-and-Above Compensation in Tech
How well does tech pay, really? A deep look into almost 1,000 data points sent in by engineering managers, senior+ engineers, VP, and C-level folks in…
Mar 19
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #85: is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound…
Mar 14
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Gergely Orosz
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What Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 1
How has the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it…
Mar 12
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #84: Why is Apple bullying its own developers?
In the 1990s, Microsoft was the company most developers hated with a passion. Today, Apple is working harder than any other organization to earn a…
Mar 7
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Gergely Orosz
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Organizing and Running Successful Hackathons
Hackathons are fun for engineers, beneficial for businesses, and a good way to shake things up. This article suggests approaches for running successful…
Mar 5
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Gergely Orosz
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February 2024
The Pulse #83: Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why…
Feb 29
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Gergely Orosz
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The end of 0% interest rates: what it means for software engineering practices
Could we see monoliths favored over microservices, full-stack tools over platform specific ones and pragmatic, simpler architecture as a response to 10…
Feb 27
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The Pulse #82: Why did ChatGPT start to produce gibberish?
Understanding the architecture of ChatGPT we can better pinpoint what exactly might have gone wrong. Also: Twilio’s cofounder CEO stepped down – could…
Feb 22
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Gergely Orosz
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Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges
Just one year after its launch, ChatGPT had more than 100M weekly users. In order to meet this explosive demand, the team at OpenAI had to overcome…
Feb 20
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The Pulse #81: Could Vision Pro become a coding sidekick?
Developers as power users should be an obvious target group for the Vision Pro. But the technology doesn’t seem to be there just yet. Also: NVIDIA…
Feb 15
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Gergely Orosz
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