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 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.…