What Gergely Orosz thinks about AI agents
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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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAgents generate more data than before so understanding primitives that are both cheap + fast is v helpful
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Their wordsThey sure feel they are reducing human-to-human interaction via the code, I'll be honest
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Their wordsThis stuff needs to live either in a VM, or probably the cloud.