Gergely Orosz
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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Their wordsAmong tech companies that have built their own coding agent harness that runs in their cloud, I expect many to build internal vibe-coding tools for non-engineers like Stripe and Ramp have done.
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Their wordsIt's now starting to happen, everywhere: build systems, CI, source control, code review: all under stress.
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Their wordsAI is making everyone (small teams or big) build much faster…
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Their wordsMeanwhile so many people less “AI-pilled” just have AI take over their writing. They DO stop thinking and it shows
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Their wordsTheir business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.
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Their wordsThe last company to remove DSA interviews (aka Leetcode) is Google
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Their wordswhy anyone with options to join Ant or OpenAI or GDM would join SpaceX given how poorly Musk companies treat engineers
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Their wordsDSA was always meant to be a filter for a mix of college education + willingness to learn something pointless
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Their wordsIt was created because it’s easy to scale to thousands of relatively untrained interviewers with hundreds of questions where it doesn’t matter if some leak
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Their wordsThe AI-style interview fwiw is good and increasingly necessary just not as easy to “scale it” like DSA.
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Their wordsGoogle will keep asking it in in-person settings / on sites for sure
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Their wordsIf anything it adds mobility because every major startup + Big Tech does it do learn once and for all~10 years you benefitted
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Their wordsReference checks becoming baseline and good references needed
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Trial periods could get longer as interview signal gets weaker for on-the-job performance.
Their wordsTrial periods could get longer as interview signal gets weaker for on-the-job performance
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Their wordsAFAIK they regularly pass on ppl acing the interview but where references (ppl they worked with) are not a slam dunk convincing
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Databricks' very thorough reference checks work, judging by how well it is doing as a business.
Their wordsAnd it works: look at how well they are doing as a business!
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Their wordsBut in 9/10 cases unless said person is not a cofounder or founding eng, they won’t get the trust to do the risky + sometimes controversial stuff that is required to execute quickly and well to win vs competition
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Their wordsWhoever doesn’t want to use AI, no problem: but you won’t be hired at 99.9% of startups+Big Tech+ambitious companies, even today
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Modern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and will no longer be done without them.
Their wordsLike it or not, modern sw engineering is no longer done without LLMs (AI) and will no longer be done without.
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Their wordseven “artificial intelligence” was a stretch given LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet our common understanding of “intelligence.”
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Their wordsb) more startups filter for “AI positivity” as a whole
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Their wordsa) referrals became more important tho. Warm ones; “worked with this person and they’re gold” type of ones. It’s how eg AI labs hire a lot
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Their wordsHallucination is a feature not a bug; generating the next token and the next also.
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Their wordsYou can either hold crypto and keep being stressed out if a math breakthrough would drain your wallet; or someone stealing your keys would drain your wallet; or someone kidnapping you and forcing you to hand over your keys would drain your wallet
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Google's incident management for Firebase was poor and inconsistent with its usual standards.
Their wordsFirebase – built by Google – has had a nasty outage this week with shockingly poor incident management at odds with how Google itself usually deals with high-severity incidents.
↗The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor responseblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Their wordsAI agents might be making lots of work more efficient, but following up on action items seems to move at the same snail pace at Google, as it did pre-AI!
↗The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor responseblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Their wordsone more reason AI agents will increasingly run on the cloud, not locally
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Their wordsSadly you cannot trust anon blue check accounts on this site anymore
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Their wordsIf a company ignores how the industry changes, their business could suffer.
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Their wordsGitHub sees more AI-generated PRs per month than human-written ones already.