Industry trends

The Pulse #138: Ban or embrace AI tools in technical interviews?

Also: Shopify celebrates engineers who spend the most AI tokens, too much AI usage could lead to cognitive decline, and more.

13 hrs ago •

The Pulse #137: Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

Building a system where hundreds of devs simulate being an AI would have been silly in 2024. Also: stock vesting changes at NVIDIA and Anthropic, a…

Jun 12 •

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…

Jun 5 •

The Pulse #135: Google’s AI developer tools feel like a checkbox exercise

Also: Apple won’t self-regulate, so the US and EU will, Spain blocks part of the internet during football matches, and more

May 29 •

Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future

Impressions from a week in Seattle, at Microsoft’s annual developer conference. Microsoft is eating its own dogfood with Copilot – and it’s not tasty

May 27 •

The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead

Also: large job cuts at Microsoft, high performers get more bonus at Google while low performers get less, notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code…

May 15 •

Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?

We might be seeing the end of remote interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial weeks and longer trial periods. Could…

Apr 15 •

The Pulse #130: Google releases AI-powered IDE

Also: Git turns 20, a new trend of AI cost saving pressure at developer agencies, John Carmack on how LLMs will impact the industry, and more

Apr 10 •

The Pulse #129: new trend of EMs quitting to be startup founders using AI

Also: Trump tariffs to hit tech, Gemini Pro 2.5 might be the best coding model yet, tips on using LLMs to code, and leaked startup recruitment…

Apr 3 •

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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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…

Mar 11 •

The Pulse #126: Startup asks for a lot, offers little → struggles to hire

Also: Cloufflare’s self-critical, transparent postmortem, additional signs of Big Tech becoming more cutthroat, and more.

Mar 6 •

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