What Gergely Orosz thinks about developer tools
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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5 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 wordsFor startups starting from scratch, they need to eventually rebuild all those systems: from eg ones for automated testing, manual testing, FF, canary rollouts, o11y, experimentation, migrations etc etc
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Their wordsRailway, Render, Fly io all examples of ones surely not as much red tape as eg AWS
- 6 days earlier
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Our readingIntegrated emoji pickers can be amazing
Their wordsLinear is next level: they integrated Jev into the emoji picker already and it’s AMAZING
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Their wordshaving the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you
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Their wordsThis is why everyone is rethinking code reviews, deploys, possibly even o11y
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