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Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor
A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding…
Jun 30
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Gergely Orosz
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Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time
An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down…
Jun 23
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Gergely Orosz
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Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
Jun 16
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?
Anthropic’s new model, Fable, has restrictions many users find unacceptable. Also: a new trend of smart model routing, Coinbase’s core service has no…
Jun 11
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Gergely Orosz
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State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are…
Jun 9
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Gergely Orosz
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Jessica Salmon
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The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning…
May 28
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Gergely Orosz
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State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on software engineering jobs, the AI engineering boom, whether AI engineering is…
May 26
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Gergely Orosz
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Jessica Salmon
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The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Also: a look into rising tech job losses, self-reporting 100% AI usage at big companies, vibe coding & agentic engineering merging, and more
May 14
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Gergely Orosz
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Revisiting “No Silver Bullets” in the age of AI
Does the noted “No Silver Bullets” paper by the author of a classic engineering book still hold up, 40 years later? Is AI the long-sought single silver…
May 12
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?
Also: Amazon finally allows engineers to use Claude Code and Codex, Meta forcefully assigns engineers to data labelling work ahead of layoffs, more…
May 7
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?
Also: Anthropic’s speed run to break devs’ goodwill, big price increases from GitHub Copilot, Mitchell Hashimoto on the “building block economy,” and…
Apr 30
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Gergely Orosz
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How will AI change operating systems? Part 1: Ubuntu and Linux
A deepdive with the Canonical team into how AI is changing Ubuntu, why they’re betting on local-first LLMs, and a look into other Linux distributions
Apr 28
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Gergely Orosz
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