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State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are…
 • Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning…
 • Gergely Orosz
State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on software engineering jobs, the AI engineering boom, whether AI engineering is…
 • Gergely Orosz and Jessica Salmon
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
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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…
 • Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson
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…
 • Gergely Orosz
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