Platform engineering teams building agentic "software factories" hit scaling walls once they route nearly 100% of Jira issues through agents and expect hundreds or thousands of engineers to operate th…
A developer examining OpenAI's agentic software factory workflow argues that its low-risk pull request classifier, which can remove human review from the release path, is itself a release decision tha…
Software engineers remain in high demand because AI coding agents generate code cheaply but lack discernment, producing buggy or overly complex software that requires human judgment to manage, accordi…
Anthropic's Claude Code pricing in August 2026 shows the same tokens and model costing up to 40x more depending on whether users buy seats or pay per token, according to a report by Pragmatic Engineer…
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, …
AI coding tools have shifted the primary constraint in software engineering from time to complexity, according to a Pragmatic Engineer blog post citing Jarred Sumner. Projects that once took a year ca…
The old signals for hiring—resumes, degrees, cover letters—have collapsed because AI can cheaply fake them, leaving recruiters drowning in AI-generated applications and candidates feeling ghosted. A d…
A new GitHub repository, 12-Factor Agents, proposes a set of principles for building reliable LLM applications, aiming to bring structured engineering practices to production AI systems. The project, …
A developer explains how to add evals to an LLM feature, using an outbound AI calling agent as an example. The process involves defining a business outcome metric, curating a representative dataset of…
Cursor's two-year aggregated usage data reveals that 90% of its token consumption is input tokens, with a 10:1 read-to-write ratio, and that the top 1% of users generate 30,000-40,000 lines of code pe…
Mitchell Hashimoto argued on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast that merge queues break under AI agent churn, but a merge-queue company founder counters that the queue itself isn't the problem—contention …
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 …
A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds inside a customer's environment, builds a production system on top of the product, and feeds lessons back to core engineering. The r…
Meta is systematically dismantling its high-performance engineering culture, shifting from a profit center to a cost center in weeks. Leadership's AI-focused mandates and restructuring have caused wid…
Kelsey Hightower argued on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast that AI does not change what software engineering is, emphasizing that writing code is decision-making and that fundamentals remain essential.…