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Gergely Orosz · 5 korrents · 2 pieces · blog.pragmaticengineer.com

How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge3 korrents · 1 Sept 2026 · no page here yet

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  1. Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated.
  2. Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.
  3. AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.
Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)2 korrents · 27 Aug 2026 · no page here yet

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  1. Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.
  2. A founder pitched as having a great deal to say on a topic has almost never written anything about it, and the absence is the tell.