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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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Gergely Orosz
1:15:31
Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #136: Cloudflare builds OAuth framework mostly with Claude
Also: new trend of higher base salaries for AI engineers than software engineers, Morgan Stanley shows AI is helpful for rewriting legacy codebases, and…
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Gergely Orosz
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50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie, a 28-year Microsoft veteran shares the inside story of how the company evolved its developer tools—from Visual Basic to Azure, VS Code…
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Gergely Orosz
1:04:05
Vibe Coding as a software engineer
There’s a lot of talk about “vibe coding”, but is it just a vague term for prototyping, or could vibes change how we build software?
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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May 2025

The Pulse #135: Google’s AI developer tools feel like a checkbox exercise
Also: Apple won’t self-regulate, so the US and EU will, Spain blocks part of the internet during football matches, and more
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Gergely Orosz
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From Software Engineer to AI Engineer – with Janvi Kalra
From Coda to OpenAI: How Janvi Kalra taught herself AI engineering, impressed top tech leaders, and built a career at the forefront of responsible…
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Gergely Orosz
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1:09:29
Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future
Impressions from a week in Seattle, at Microsoft’s annual developer conference. Microsoft is eating its own dogfood with Copilot – and it’s not tasty
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Gergely Orosz
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In Seattle for the week
No Pulse today, see you next Tuesday!
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Gergely Orosz
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The AI Engineering Stack
Three layers of the AI stack, how AI engineering is different from ML engineering and fullstack engineering, and more. An excerpt from the book AI…
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Gergely Orosz
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Chip Huyen
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The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead
Also: large job cuts at Microsoft, high performers get more bonus at Google while low performers get less, notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code…
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Gergely Orosz
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