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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem
A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video…
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Gergely Orosz
State of the software engineering job market in 2024
A deep dive into job market trends, the companies and cities hiring the most software engineers, growth areas, and more. Exclusive data and charts
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Gergely Orosz
How Claude Code is built
A rare look into how the new, popular dev tool is built, and what it might mean for the future of software building with AI. Exclusive.
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Gergely Orosz
The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025
Interview processes are changing in a tech market that’s both cooling AND heating up at the same time. A deepdive with Hello Interview founders, Evan…
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Gergely Orosz
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Evan King
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Stefan Mai
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
MCP Protocol: a new AI dev tools building block
The Model Context Protocol - that extends IDEs’ AI capabilities - is gaining rapid popularity. Why is this, and why should us developers pay attention…
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Gergely Orosz
The end of 0% interest rates: what the new normal means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and…
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Gergely Orosz
How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and…
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Gergely Orosz
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Addy Osmani
State of the software engineering job market in 2025, part 1, what the data says
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location…
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Gergely Orosz
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
AI Engineering in the real world
What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies
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Gergely Orosz
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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Gergely Orosz
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