A July 2026 study from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford researchers, "AI Writes Faster Than Humans Can Review," found that pull request volume grew 3.1× while the reviewer pool grew only 1.5× across 802 d…
The Pragmatic Engineer has launched an essay competition with a grand prize of $10,000 and additional prizes of $2,500, inviting software engineers to submit essays of 3,000 to 10,000 words on how AI …
A developer building Ziggity, a terminal client for Git, argues that AI has shifted software engineering's core task from writing code to verifying it, citing PSPDFKit founder Peter Steinberger, who s…
Addy Osmani, who spent 14 years at Google working on Chrome DevTools and developer experience, discussed how AI agents are reducing the cost of producing output, making specification and evaluation th…
GitHub reported that merged pull requests grew from 25 million per month in January 2023 to 90 million per month today, while commits are on pace to exceed 14 billion in 2026, driven by AI coding agen…
Addy Osmani, a 14-year Google veteran who led Chrome DevTools and Core Web Vitals, discusses his transition to AI engineering in the latest Pragmatic Engineer podcast, revealing that he built a web br…
Canonical's Vice President of Engineering Jon Seager said Ubuntu's user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing faster than native Ubuntu desktop installs and expects WSL to pull ahea…
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…
Meta's internal leaderboard 'Claudeonomics' ranked over 85,000 employees by AI token consumption, rewarding top 250 users with titles like 'Token Legend' and 'Session Immortal,' leading to 60.2 trilli…
A developer audited ten websites they scrape for AI-related content and found that only two had licenses permitting commercial reuse, despite several having permissive robots.txt files. The audit reve…
Optiver, a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Amsterdam, is shifting its software engineering focus from minimizing latency to building better AI models, according to its CTO Alex Itkin and oth…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, said in an August 11th post on X that working with AI has restored a creative urgency he had not felt since his ea…
AI agents now outnumber human readers of technical documentation by thousands to one, according to Cloudflare data showing Anthropic's crawlers fetched 38,000 pages for every human visitor it referred…
Formal methods consultant Hillel Wayne argues that software engineering earns the title of 'real engineering' due to its rigor, while noting that version control is uniquely sophisticated in software …
Cursor launched Router on July 22, an automatic model selector for Teams and Enterprise customers that classifies each coding request before a model runs, delivering frontier-quality performance at 60…
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…
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, …
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…
A developer's inbox filter reveals 26 engineering newsletters that survived a strict three-week unsubscribe rule, with AI engineering emerging as its own discipline. The list includes newer publicatio…
Dex Horthy, CEO and cofounder of HumanLayer, coined the term 'context engineering' and shared lessons from building AI agents, including that shipping unread code leads to disaster within months after…