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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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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
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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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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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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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Building, launching, and scaling ChatGPT Images
ChatGPT Images is OpenAI’s biggest launch yet, with 100 million NEW users generating 700 million images in the first week. But how was it built? A…
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Gergely Orosz
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Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling…
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Gergely Orosz
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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
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AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Chip Huyen, a computer scientist, author of the freshly published O’Reilly book AI…
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Gergely Orosz
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