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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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The Pulse: AI token spending out of control – what’s next?
Details from 15 tech companies on the rapid growth of token spend, and their responses to it. Also: AI vendors can’t keep up with demand, plummeting…
Apr 23
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
… which will probably be the shortest-lived trend because it’s so wasteful. Also: coding AI agent subsidies could be ending, Cal.com going closed source…
Apr 16
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Gergely Orosz
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The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends. Part 1
Our AI tooling survey finds concerns about mounting AI costs, more engineers hitting usage limits, and AI tools having uneven effects upon different…
Apr 14
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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Cycles of disruption in the tech industry: with software pioneers Kent Beck & Martin Fowler
Parallels between technology shifts in the past decades and what we’re seeing with AI. Also: ways to avoid burnout when working with AI agents, TDD back…
Apr 7
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse: Industry leaders return to coding with AI
Mark Zuckerberg and Garry Tan join the trend of C-level folks jumping back into coding with AI. Also: a bad week for Claude Code and GitHub, and more
Apr 2
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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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