The Pragmatic Engineer

An interview with an engineer with no public GitHub contributions, setting clear boundaries – and yet not having needed to apply for positions when searching for a job, because referrals found them

Also: AI-agent generated pull requests cause headaches for large open source projects, OpenAI acquires the creator of uv, a sudden Cursor price hike annoys some enterprise customers, and more

Jean Lee, engineer #19 at WhatsApp, on scaling the app with a tiny team, the Facebook acquisition, and what it reveals about the future of engineering.

As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity. What’s happening, and how do we solve it?

Also: new trend of token costs becoming a worry for CTOs, 10% cuts at Atlassian, and more.

Steve Yegge on how AI is reshaping software engineering, the rise of “vibe coding,” and why developers must adapt to a rapidly changing craft.

How Uber built Minion, Shepherd, uReview, and other internal agentic AI tools. Also, new challenges in rolling out AI tools, like more platform investment and growing concern about token costs

Also: 40% job cuts at Block “not due to AI”, Antigravity bans reinforce Google’s disdain for paying customers, and more

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on building AI-powered coding tools, parallel agents, and how the engineer's role is evolving in an AI-first world.

Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents

An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis

Mitchell Hashimoto on building HashiCorp, navigating the cloud giants, and how AI agents have transformed his day-to-day engineering workflow.