LLMs 11
- Hallucination is a feature rather than a bug in LLMs.
- The term "artificial intelligence" is a stretch because LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet the common understanding of "intelligence."
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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Google 10
- Google will keep asking DSA questions in in-person, on-site interviews.
- Google is the last company to remove DSA interviews.
startups 9
- DSA interviews add job mobility rather than friction: nearly every major startup and Big Tech company uses them, so learning them once pays off for years.
- People who do not want to use AI will not be hired at 99.9% of startups, Big Tech, and ambitious companies.
team size 5
- AI is making everyone build much faster
- Bending Spoons' business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.
AI agents 4
- Following up on action items at Google moves at a snail pace, even with AI.
- AI agents will increasingly run on the cloud, not locally
developer tools 4
- Startups starting from scratch eventually need to rebuild systems such as testing, feature flags, canary rollouts, observability, experimentation and migrations.
- Railway, Render, and Fly.io surely have less red tape than cloud providers such as AWS.
software quality 4
- The cost of introducing and paying off tech debt has changed significantly
- Everyone is rethinking code reviews, deploys, and possibly observability
AI slop 3
- Microsoft made the name 'Copilot' synonymous with 'AI slop' by shipping broken, forced Copilot features for years, so people hate it.
- Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.
innovation 3
- One reason the UK's tech industry can pull away from the rest of Europe is that London and the UK are outside the EU and less bound by innovation-slowing regulation.
- After 20 years of little change, application development is now being hit by a new wave of change.
OpenAI 3
See all 3the cloud 3
- AI agents will increasingly run on the cloud, not locally
- Railway, Render, and Fly.io surely have less red tape than cloud providers such as AWS.
vibe coding 3
- Many tech companies that build their own coding agent harnesses will likely build internal vibe-coding tools for non-engineers.
- AI makes it easier to hack things together, but this is not engineering.
agency 2
- Startups starting from scratch eventually need to rebuild systems such as testing, feature flags, canary rollouts, observability, experimentation and migrations.
- Some of the most AI-native mid-sized and larger companies are the ones that had dedicated infra and dev platform teams before AI.
AI writing 2
- AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.
- Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.
Anthropic 2
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- Warm referrals have, by what he hears, become more important in tech hiring; it is how AI labs hire a lot.
- The era of all-remote video interview hiring processes is over.
management 2
- CJ Desai's departure is bad news for MongoDB
- Large layoffs tend to push out the best employees, who quit for competitors or start their own companies.
Microsoft 2
- None of the startups or serious tech companies the author knows use Microsoft Teams; they use Slack, apart from Cloudflare on Google Chat.
- Microsoft made the name 'Copilot' synonymous with 'AI slop' by shipping broken, forced Copilot features for years, so people hate it.
writing 2
- AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.
- Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.