The Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely Orosz · 14 korrents · 7 pieces · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies1 korrent · 15 Oct 2026 · no page here yet
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response2 korrents · 8 Oct 2026 · no page here yet
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages2 korrents · 24 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models1 korrent · 10 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI3 korrents · 3 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
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- A healthy on-call schedule needs six or more engineers if every alert is to be taken seriously by an engineer focused mainly on on-call and stability.
- Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.
- Large layoffs tend to push out the best employees, who quit for competitors or start their own companies.
How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge3 korrents · 1 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
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- Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated.
- Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.
- 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.