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The Pulse #144: Rare look into AWS’s PR/FAQ process
Also: ChatGPT is potentially more efficient than 95% of in-house GenAI projects, Google cuts TLM positions, and more.
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Gergely Orosz
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 2
Which tools do software engineers use for project management, communication and collaboration, databases and backend infrastructure? Reader survey with…
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse #142: Crazy-hours culture at AI startups
Also: Figma’s in-demand IPO could mark the end of the “tech IPO winter”, Amazon’s spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more
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Gergely Orosz
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What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so…
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Gergely Orosz
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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
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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…
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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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