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The Pragmatic Engineer

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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesWhat’s the ROI of software engineers’ spending on AI? A software engineer whose company is looking into its own spending on AI tools pinged me with a very timely question recently, asking what other companies spend on AI, per engineer.

10.20

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse: OpenAI software engineer accused of spying The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: OpenAI software engineer accused of spying.

10.15
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesUber’s AI infra, from the inside Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

10.14

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesBuilding resilient AI-powered software, and planning for when things go wrong Last week’s guest on the podcast was Sam Newman , who had released a book I’ve personally long awaited titled Building Resilient Distributed Systems .

10.13

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: New trend: building internal vibe-coding apps at mid-sized companies.

10.08
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesBuilding resilient systems with Sam Newman Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

10.07

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Firebase: global outage & poor handling by Google.

10.01
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesDistributed databases with Peter Mattis Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

09.30

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Writing code by hand: is it over?

09.24
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesDesign Engineering with Maggie Appleton Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

09.23

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesHow will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows AI is changing how us software engineers build software, and developers’ tool preferences are rapidly evolving with it – like how AI coding harnesses have gotten very popular.

09.22
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesAI Skills with Matt Pocock Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

09.17

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesInside OpenAI’s agentic software factory It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do.

09.15

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: New trend of CPU shortages: after a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies…

09.10
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The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesBuilding Codex with Tibo Sottiaux Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.

09.09

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesWhat is happening with code reviews? One question haunting the minds of CTOs and heads of engineering whom I’ve been talking with, is how to deal with large quantities of code review which have only been growing now that AI agents…

09.08

The Pragmatic EngineerVoicesThe Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models Update: three weeks after publishing this article, Bloomberg covered the same trend in their article OpenAI, Anthropic costs push more startups to build off cheaper open models , covering the exact…

09.03