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The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?
Poor availability has dogged GitHub for months and raises questions about its status and focus. Plus, Microsoft promises Windows will not be…
Mar 26
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The Pulse: Is the FDE role becoming less desirable?
Also: AI-agent generated pull requests cause headaches for large open source projects, OpenAI acquires the creator of uv, a sudden Cursor price hike…
Mar 19
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Are AI agents actually slowing us down?
As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity…
Mar 17
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The Pulse: What will the Staff Engineer role look like in 2027 and beyond?
Also: new trend of token costs becoming a worry for CTOs, 10% cuts at Atlassian, and more.
Mar 12
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The Pulse: AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first
Also: 40% job cuts at Block “not due to AI”, Antigravity bans reinforce Google’s disdain for paying customers, and more
Mar 5
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AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026
Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more…
Mar 3
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and…
Feb 26
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The Future of Software Engineering with AI: Six Predictions
Notes from The Pragmatic Summit and ‘The Future of Software Development’ workshop
Feb 24
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The Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams?
Also: Anthropic bans third-party devs while Codex embraces them, Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, a lot more software gets created with AI, and more
Feb 19
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Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering
Steve Yegge on the 8 levels of AI adoption, why big companies may be doomed, and why he and many AI-adopters feel drained from using agents non-stop
Feb 10
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Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools
Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review…
Feb 3
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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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