Canonical's VP of Engineering Jon Seager said Ubuntu's user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing significantly faster than its native desktop user base, and he expects WSL to overt…
Gergely Orosz's Pragmatic Engineer has published a continuously updated collection of templates and resources for engineering managers and software engineers, including deepdive reports on MCP usage, …
Only 2 out of 9 self-improving AI agents running in production actually have a verifier grounded in real-world data, according to an analysis by an unnamed expert. The verifier is the key bottleneck, …
Only 2 of 9 documented production use cases qualify as truly self-improving loops, according to a new analysis by Loadbearing Tech. The analysis highlights Replit's product development agent and an Op…
Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, built a web-based annotation tool that lets users paste a link to a webpage, highlight passages, and copy feedback in a format easy for AI a…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, while Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8, and Google's Gemini has slipped outside the top tier for software development according to Gergely …
Enterprises should stop chasing the latest AI models and instead start with the cheapest credible model that meets their needs, according to a senior news editor's analysis. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terr…
Nvidia, now the world's most valuable company at $4.8 trillion, requires employees to pay for subsidized cafeteria meals and some drinks, contrasting with free-perk policies at rivals like Google. CEO…
A developer found that while AI accelerates generation, it does not reduce the cognitive load of judgment. They now delegate tasks only when a machine-checkable gate exists to verify output, as the hi…
Gergely Orosz of the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter argues that the proliferation of communication tools and scattered information across platforms like Figma, GitHub, Slack, and Notion is fragmenting …
Most companies integrate AI into development by giving developers AI assistants without changing their process, leading to review bottlenecks. The author proposes shifting engineering work to spec-dri…
Meta's Applied AI unit, a 6,500-person team created to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI ambitions, is in turmoil after elite engineers were forcibly reassigned to data-labeling tasks, with employees des…
Former Google distinguished engineer Kelsey Hightower said AI is not replacing software engineers, only those whose sole skill is coding. In a Wednesday podcast interview, Hightower argued that develo…
Gergely Orosz reports that AI is amplifying team culture for better or worse, while Cloudflare demonstrates frontier models chaining exploits and outperforming single-agent verification in security re…