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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1 Sept 2026
Our reading
Their wordsAlmost every company we talk with currently says that processes which worked fine for years are suddenly pretty outdated.
↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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1 Sept 2026
Our reading
Their wordsWriting is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.
↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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1 Sept 2026
Our reading
Their wordsThe reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.
↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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27 Aug 2026
Our reading
Their wordsDon't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.
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27 Aug 2026
Our reading
Their wordsIf your CEO/founder has so much to say about a topic: say it and write it! Ironically, every time I look up what the founder has written about the topic they (or their marketing team) are pitching, there's nothing! Nada.