The Pragmatic Engineer

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From Coda to OpenAI: How Janvi Kalra taught herself AI engineering, impressed top tech leaders, and built a career at the forefront of responsible AI—plus actionable advice for landing your own AI role.

Impressions from a week in Seattle, at Microsoft’s annual developer conference. Microsoft is eating its own dogfood with Copilot – and it’s not tasty

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Three layers of the AI stack, how AI engineering is different from ML engineering and fullstack engineering, and more. An excerpt from the book AI Engineering by Chip Huyen

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Kat Cosgrove shares what Kubernetes actually does, how it’s structured and scaled, and why it’s become one of the most successful open-source projects in the world.

ChatGPT Images is OpenAI’s biggest launch yet, with 100 million NEW users generating 700 million images in the first week. But how was it built? A deepdive with OpenAI’s engineering team

Apple fighting Spotify, Kindle, Patreon, and other apps add web payment buttons to iOS apps. Also: the downside of feature flags, Big Tech generates 20-30% of code with AI tools, and more.

Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.

Is the landmark software engineering book ‘The Mythical Man-Month’ still relevant today, and what’s changed during half a century of computing in dev productivity, shipping of projects, and docs?

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