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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…
Jul 2
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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…
Jun 24
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Birgitta Boeckeler
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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.
Jun 19
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #138: Ban or embrace AI tools in technical interviews?
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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
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The Pulse #137: Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
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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…
Jun 5
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #136: Cloudflare builds OAuth framework mostly with Claude
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #135: Google’s AI developer tools feel like a checkbox exercise
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead
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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
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Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?
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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
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The Pulse #130: Google releases AI-powered IDE
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #129: new trend of EMs quitting to be startup founders using AI
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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…
Apr 1
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The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025
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