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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.

Jul 17 •

Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering

Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting…

Jul 8 •

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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…

Jul 2 •

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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…

Jun 24 •

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Birgitta Boeckeler

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.

Jun 19 •

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…

Jun 12 •

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…

Jun 5 •

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

May 29 •

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

May 27 •

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…

May 15 •

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…

Apr 15 •

The Pulse #130: Google releases AI-powered IDE

Also: Git turns 20, a new trend of AI cost saving pressure at developer agencies, John Carmack on how LLMs will impact the industry, and more

Apr 10 •

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