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The Pulse #139: Section 174 is reversed! Or is it?
Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is. Also: why Meta is “going to war” to…
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Gergely Orosz
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What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh
Former Amazon Principal Engineer Steve Huynh shares what it takes to reach the Principal level, why the jump Principal is so tough at Amazon, and how…
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Gergely Orosz
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Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering
Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting…
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Gergely Orosz
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Sandor Felber
The 10x “overemployed” engineer
A software engineer worked at several AI startups at the same time, without his employers knowing anything about it. Then one frustrated founder who…
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How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Shopify's Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, shares how the company is using internal LLMs, unlimited AI tokens, and custom tooling to figure out how…
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check
How are devs at AI startups and in Big Tech using AI tools, and what do they think of them? A broad overview of the state of play in tooling, with…
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Gergely Orosz
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June 2025

Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering
How to think about today’s AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler…
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Gergely Orosz
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Birgitta Boeckeler
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The Pulse #138: Ban or embrace AI tools in technical interviews?
Also: Shopify celebrates engineers who spend the most AI tokens, too much AI usage could lead to cognitive decline, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
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The present, past and future of GitHub
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shares how the company evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work and junior hiring, and how AI tools like Copilot are…
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Gergely Orosz
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Being an “Intrapreneur” as a software engineer
Building skills useful entrepreneurs, while also shipping more, and helping your career inside a tech company. A guest post by Chaitali Narla.
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Gergely Orosz
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Chaitali Narla
The Pulse #137: Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
Building a system where hundreds of devs simulate being an AI would have been silly in 2024. Also: stock vesting changes at NVIDIA and Anthropic, a…
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Gergely Orosz
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TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck
Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments…
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