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The Pulse #158: new ways of coding with AI tools

The “Ralph method” and running multiple agents at once gain popularity, AI job cuts at dev tooling and education providers, four nines of uptime after quitting the cloud, and more

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Gergely Orosz
Jan 08, 2026
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.

Today, we cover:

  1. Feedback on Tuesday’s deepdive. A lot is unknown with more capable AI agents, and after using these better AI agents to get legal advice, I’m also more bullish on software engineer…

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