Articles: 105
24 Jun 2025, 12:30
Technology
How to think about today's AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
19 Jun 2025, 16:28
Also: Shopify celebrates engineers who spend the most AI tokens, too much AI usage could lead to cognitive decline, and more.
18 Jun 2025, 16:21
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shares how the company evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work and junior hiring, and how AI tools like Copilot are reshaping software development.
17 Jun 2025, 21:51
Building skills useful entrepreneurs, while also shipping more, and helping your career inside a tech company. A guest post by Chaitali Narla.
12 Jun 2025, 16:39
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 reminder on how vibe-coded apps are wonky, and more
11 Jun 2025, 16:10
Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments with AI tools shaping software's future.
10 Jun 2025, 17:01
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it's built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif
05 Jun 2025, 16:39
Also: new trend of higher base salaries for AI engineers than software engineers, Morgan Stanley shows AI is helpful for rewriting legacy codebases, and more.
04 Jun 2025, 16:45
Scott Guthrie, a 28-year Microsoft veteran shares the inside story of how the company evolved its developer tools—from Visual Basic to Azure, VS Code, and GitHub—and what's next with AI.
03 Jun 2025, 16:21
There's a lot of talk about "vibe coding", but is it just a vague term for prototyping, or could vibes change how we build software?
29 May 2025, 15:30
Also: Apple won't self-regulate, so the US and EU will, Spain blocks part of the internet during football matches, and more
28 May 2025, 16:52
From Coda to OpenAI: How Janvi Kalra taught herself AI engineering, impressed top tech leaders, and built a career at the forefront of responsible AI—plus actionable advice for landing your own AI role.
27 May 2025, 15:01
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
22 May 2025, 15:58
No Pulse today, see you next Tuesday!
20 May 2025, 15:28
Three layers of the AI stack, how AI engineering is different from ML engineering and fullstack engineering, and more. An excerpt from the book AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
15 May 2025, 15:25
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, and more
14 May 2025, 17:06
Kat Cosgrove shares what Kubernetes actually does, how it's structured and scaled, and why it's become one of the most successful open-source projects in the world.
13 May 2025, 15:58
ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's biggest launch yet, with 100 million NEW users generating 700 million images in the first week. But how was it built? A deepdive with OpenAI's engineering team
08 May 2025, 16:31
Apple fighting Spotify, Kindle, Patreon, and other apps add web payment buttons to iOS apps. Also: the downside of feature flags, Big Tech generates 20-30% of code with AI tools, and more.
07 May 2025, 16:32
Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.
06 May 2025, 15:55
Is the landmark software engineering book 'The Mythical Man-Month' still relevant today, and what's changed during half a century of computing in dev productivity, shipping of projects, and docs?
01 May 2025, 13:59
Also: Judge says Apple ignored a court injunction and lied under oath, Cursor's incredible growth comes with AI troubles, and more
30 Apr 2025, 17:39
Ebi Atawodi, Director at YouTube Studio, shares strategies from Uber and Netflix on building strong product-engineering partnerships, fostering trust, and unlocking team innovation.
29 Apr 2025, 12:30
Why are humanoid robots becoming popular, and which skills make for a great robotics engineer? Guest post by Humanoid Robot Learning Researcher, Sandor Felber
23 Apr 2025, 12:56
Reddit's mobile engineers share how they completely rebuilt the iOS and Android app, introducing a new core tech stack, modern architecture, and improved testing strategies at massive scale.
22 Apr 2025, 14:58
A massive milestone hit, which seemed barely possible when I launched The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter a little over 3 years ago...
17 Apr 2025, 17:03
Also: CVE program nearly axed, restored at the 11th hour, Rippling rescinds signed offer the candidate-to-join already handed in their resignation, and more
16 Apr 2025, 17:02
Dave Anderson, formerly Tech Director at Amazon, shares an inside look at Amazon's engineering culture—from hiring and promotions to team autonomy and extreme frugality.
15 Apr 2025, 15:53
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 hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
10 Apr 2025, 16:51
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
09 Apr 2025, 16:25
Stanford professor John Ousterhout explains why thoughtful software design matters more than ever as AI tools transform coding practices and developer workflows.
08 Apr 2025, 16:27
The Model Context Protocol that extends IDEs' AI capabilities. It's gaining rapid popularity – why is this, and why should us developers pay attention to it?
