The Pragmatic Engineer

I sit down with Grady Booch to put today’s AI automation claims in historical context and explain why software engineering is entering another golden age, not disappearing.

Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools. And how they learn which ones work… and whic

Also: AI agents keep changing engineers’ working styles, layoffs at big and profitable companies, “AI-native” techies increasingly in demand, and more

Listen now (114 mins) | How Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (formerly: Clawd), builds and ships like a full team by centering his development workflow around AI agents.

Craft Docs resisted AI hype as a nimble, well-run startup – but has just made a sharp pivot to AI, building a universal agentic tool everyone there now uses. The results are phenomenal. Exclusive.

Also: New trend of staff+ engineers and managers using AI a lot, replacing a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code, and more

A behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon S3 is designed for durability and correctness at massive scale, drawing on over a decade of operating one of the world’s largest distributed systems with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec at AWS.

Product engineers are more in demand than ever, but how do you become one? New book, “The Product-Minded Engineer”, offers a guide. An interview with its author and an exclusive excerpt

One trend this year may well be experimentation with agent orchestration and long-running agents – which is already underway. Also: Claude Code bans OpenCode while Codex embraces it, and more

A comprehensive guide to design system engineering (DSE): when it’s relevant, how AI changes things, and pointers for getting started. From Michael Abernethy, Principal Frontend Engineer at Rubrik

The “Ralph method” and running multiple agents at once gain popularity, AI job cuts at dev tooling and education providers, four nines of uptime after quitting the cloud, and more

No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry