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The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
How are VC funding, hiring, and founder trends shifting—and what does it mean for software engineers at startups? Extensive data discussed with Peter…
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Gergely Orosz
1:19:37
The Pulse #140: Does Cursor make developers less effective?
Also: the complicated story of the Windsurf sale, beginning of the end for VC-subsidized tokens, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
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Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering (Robotics for software engineers, Part 3)
Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting…
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Gergely Orosz
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Sandor Felber
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
47:02
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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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.
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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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
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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