What Gergely Orosz thinks about SaaS
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 wordsthis feature copies Kiro / GitHub Workflows that all proved to be dead on arrival save at slow moving companies/teams…
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Their wordsGoogle integrated Gemini into every single place inside Google Workspace where it doesn't work, and nowhere where it would be useful
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsThey’ve been going native since 2019, rewriting one page at a time. Did an interview with their team in 2024, by when they migrated most of the app to native. The last few pages still remain.
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