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The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?
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The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system
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The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies
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The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
Before we start: if you happen to be in San Francisco on Thursday, 5 November, join me on the System Update with The Pragmatic Engineer event. This is an evening with OpenAI, Linear and DoorDash and myself, organized by Sentry. We get into what AI-augmented automations they’re…
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages
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The 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 same phenomenon we discuss below. If you would like to stay weeks ahead of…
The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge
The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on…
The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI
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Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)
This email is a response to the 50+ podcast pitches that arrived in my inbox just last month, and keep arriving in growing numbers, from PR agencies and marketing teams at various companies. It's also a message to tech founders building stuff for developers: focus on building…
The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave
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The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud
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The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy
Bending Spoons has announced buying Airtable for $1.285B in cash this week - which is less than the $1.4B in total funding Airtable has raised in the past, and well below the $11B valuation it had during its last fundraise in December 2021.Selling to Bending Spoons is a company…
The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
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