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Inside a five-year-old startup’s rapid AI makeover
Craft Docs resisted AI hype as a nimble, well-run startup – but has just made a sharp pivot to AI, building a universal agentic tool everyone there now…
Jan 27
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #160: Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead”
Also: New trend of staff+ engineers and managers using AI a lot, replacing a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code, and more
Jan 22
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Gergely Orosz
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The Product-Minded Engineer: The importance of good errors and warnings
Product engineers are more in demand than ever, but how do you become one? New book, “The Product-Minded Engineer”, offers a guide. An interview with…
Jan 20
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Gergely Orosz
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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry
Jan 6
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #156: Beware of global configuration changes in large systems
Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more
Dec 11, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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Code security for software engineers
Johannes Dahse, VP of Code Security at Sonar, breaks down where vulnerabilities really come from, how developers can prevent them, and how AI is…
Nov 26, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #154: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem
Also: why it’s not practical to build for CDN redundancy, Google launches AI IDE Antigravity externally while using Jetski internally, more AI fakers…
Nov 20, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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Tech jobs market 2025, part 3: job seekers’ stories
Details on the state of hiring from software engineers and EMs in the market for a new job. Insights on what’s happening from recruitment platforms…
Nov 4, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3
Which tools do software engineers use for observability, oncall tooling, feature flags, frontend & mobile work, and for developer tooling? Results from…
Oct 14, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #149: New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents
Also: the ACP protocol, AI security tooling, comparing interview experiences across 8 tech companies, and more
Oct 9, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025, part 2 what hiring managers see
Observations by 30+ hiring managers and tech recruiters about what’s happening: a flood of inbound applications means more selective hiring, there’s…
Oct 7, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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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.
Sep 23, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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