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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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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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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #160: Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead”
Also: New trend of staff+ engineers and managers using AI a lot, replacing a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code, and more
Jan 22
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Gergely Orosz
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The Product-Minded Engineer: The importance of good errors and warnings
Product engineers are more in demand than ever, but how do you become one? New book, “The Product-Minded Engineer”, offers a guide. An interview with…
Jan 20
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Gergely Orosz
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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry
Jan 6
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #156: Beware of global configuration changes in large systems
Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more
Dec 11, 2025
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Gergely Orosz
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