How is building software changing inside of one of most "AI-pilled" companies, Anthropic? We talked with engineers inside the AI lab to get more details. Spoiler: two-pizza teams have not gone anywhere! Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-ant...

How can you a product that is 10x cheaper or 10x faster than what is already out there? Simon Eskildsen (cofounder and CEO at turbopuffer) used "napkin math" - doing quick calculations to get rough answers - to get here. Full interview from AIE: youtu.be/h8TBLKyo7Rs

From "napkin math" to turbopuffer

The benefits of longer tenure, using first principles to build durable software – and why founders should be cautious when raising VC money. turbopuffer CEO Simon Eskildsen at AI Engineer's World…

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What is "loop engineering?" Looking closer at practical examples of workflows devs use, there doesn't seem to be all that much difference between triggers and cron jobs. This is probably b/c harnesses have added one-prompt "loop" capabilities. Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-lo...

"HMs are saying that highly-skilled talent (senior+ devs) is not available to be recruited, at the same time as experienced, proven professionals find their applications ignored by employers. What seems paradoxical here is how both can be true." newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tech-jobs-...

The keynote video from Craft Conference, titled "Slow down to speed up: what changed in the last 6 months for software engineering" is now available to view. Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/5wks1W-auKY Or read the extended summary in today's issue: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/slow-down-...

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We look into what's happened the last two months, all of it self-inflicted: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-met...

For those who missed: a month ago, Amazon (finally!) allowed using Claude Code and Codex for engineers. This was after many months, where engineers at the company were only allowed to use Kiro, Amazon's answer to AI coding harnesses. From 7 May 2026: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...

Ever wondered why it's much easier to get a job January to June than July to December? Fresh data from our State of the software engineering job market in 2026 shows why: because historically 90%+ of hiring happens the first part of the year. More: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

Google Cloud blocked cloud infra provider Railway's account, taking it offline. It's not the first time GCP did something unacceptable: in 2024, they deleted the infra of a $124B Australian fund. Not fully trusting GCP saved the fund's data. Full: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-cloud...

Anthropic has been upsetting devs: “dumbing down” Claude Code, removing access from some paid accounts and increasing prices. With extra compute from SpaceX, they've increased usage limits. Did Anthropic turn hostile on devs to conceal capacity issues? blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-di...

Anthropic acquired and is shutting down Stainless, a startup also used by OpenAI and Meta to generate their SDKs. So, will OpenAI and Meta rewrite their SDK using AI agents? Unlikely. We covered why, and also Stainless alternatives in our deepdive: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/building-g...

GitHub’s reliability is less than one nine (below 90%), and getting worse. GitHub’s leadership blames a ~3.5x increase in service load over the last two years for the degradation – or it might be self-inflicted. We look closer in this week’s bonus issue: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-ai...

Token spend is out of control inside many (most?) tech companies. We gathered first-hand data from 15 companies on what is happening, and what they are doing about it. The two strategies are either "let it rip" or "curb spending, NOW" newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...

This week's deepdive hit a nerve. It's true: there are more and more signs that AI agents help increase *output* but they result in worse *quality.* Unless something changes. And something needs to change, clearly! The deepdive: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/are-ai-age...

How Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp) got good at using AI tools for coding + work: "I was forcing myself to figure out how to prompt the agent to produce the same quality result as mine. Even though I was working much slower because it was more than double the work."

Steve Yegge on his 8 levels of "AI-proficiency" for software engineers: From level 6, you're working with multiple agents, at level 7 you run agent orchestrators, and at 8, run factories. On YouTube: youtu.be/aFsAOu2bgFk Other platforms: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/from-ides-...

All main-stage talks from The Pragmatic Summit are out. Check them out: - Data vs hype with AI (with Laura Tacho) - How AI is reshaping software (with OpenAI) - Building world-class engineering orgs (with GitHub's ex CEO and Atlassian's CTO) Watch: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-future...

How do companies decide which AI coding tool and AI code review tool to use across the company? Today's deepdive goes into what 10 different companies - including Wealthsimple and WeTravel - did jus this. This is how WeTravel did it: Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-...

Craft Docs (a 5-year old startup) resisted the urge to jump on the AI bandwagon for the sake of it. They kept experimenting on the side instead. In Jan, they went all in. Built custom tooling (+ open sourced it) and share exactly how they work. Full newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-m...

Happy Holidays! In the final issue of the year, we look back on the year, with most-read articles, favorites, interesting podcast episodes, and trends across the tech industry for 2025. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragma...

Interesting AI coding feature rolled out at Meta called "trajectories." On diffs, devs can see the prompts used to generate it (if it was AI-generated.) Rolled out to everyone. Given more code is generated prompting: interesting experiment! Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...

Today's deepdive is a rare behind-the-scenes on how AWS handles an outage. Details from October's outage from Senior Principal Engineer, Gavin McCullagh, who was part of the crew resolving this outage. Plus details on how incidents are handled at AWS: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-aws-de...

A new book by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda is out: Frictionless. We asked Nicole how this book relates to DORA and SPACE - frameworks on DevEx that she created. Her response: More on writing the book, and two full chapters from Frictionless: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/frictionle...

It's that time of the year... code freezes / deployment freezes will start at lots of companies. A deepdive on approaches at Big Tech; the upsides; downsides; and companies that don't do this at all: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-freezes

The book 'Frictionless' by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda is out - read two full chapters and the story behind (re)writing this book in today"s issue: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/frictionle...

Frictionless: why great developer experience can help teams win in the ‘AI age’

Exclusive excerpts from the newly-released book ‘Frictionless’, by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda.

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We talked with 40+ devs building MCP servers to figure out the on-the-ground realities of building and using MCP - the good and the bad) Some surprising findings: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/mcp-deepdive

Impact-driven promotions almost always (eventually) lead to promotion-driven development. Little wonder it's so widespread throughout Big Tech and larger companies. Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/preparing-...

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The Pragmatic Engineer Black Friday deal is live! Get a year-long subscription for $120 (instead of $150). A sub gives you access to all deepdives, The Pulse, and resources for software engineers and eng managers. Available till Monday. Get it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/0ea36188

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Holiday gift ideas for techies

Gift ideas and inspiration for the tech workers in your life (and maybe yourself) this holiday season

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