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1 week ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover:Google’s AI developer tools: checkbox exercise? Google launched both a Lovable competitor (called Google AI Studio) and a Copilot Agent alternative (called Google Jules). Both are solid, but …
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1 week ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Sinch — Connect with customers at every step of their journey. Cortex — Your Portal to Engineering Excellence. —What does it take to land a job as an AI Engineer—and thrive in the role?
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1 week ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Last week, I was in Seattle and stopped by at Microsoft’s annual developer conference, BUILD. I spent a bunch of time with GitHub CEO, Thomas Dohmke, interviewed Scott Guthrie, who leads Microsoft’s Cloud+AI group, and chatted with Jay Parikh, who heads up a new org called CoreAI. Interviews with Thomas and Scott will be published as podcasts soon. I also talked extensively with developers at BUILD, and with engineering leaders at tech companies in the city.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Today, there is no edition of The Pulse, and there was no new podcast episode yesterday. The reason for this publishing pause is that I’m in Seattle, US, for the week, attending Microsoft’s annual developer conference, BUILD. It’s a research trip, and I’ve been meeting and talking with leading tech figures like GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, and many engi…
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz |Chip Huyen
Before we start: on Monday, 16 June, I’ll be recording an episode of the Pragmatic Engineer podcast live at the LDX3 conference in London, with special guest, Farhan Thawar, who is Shopify’s Head of Engineering. It’s the closing session of the conference on that day, and it’d be great if you can join, should you be at the event.
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3 weeks ago | 
blog.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Originally published in The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"Since then, things at Stack Overflow went from bad to worse. The volume of questions asked has nearly dried up, new data shows:This graph was shared by Marc Gravell, a top 10 all-time contributor to Stack Overflow.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover:Stack overflow almost dead. Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall. Industry pulse.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Gergely Orosz
4 hours agoOn Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for …
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications. • Cortex — Your Portal to Engineering Excellence. —Kubernetes is the second-largest open-source project in the world. What does it actually do—and why is it so widely adopted?
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app of all time: from its launch in November 2022, it took the AI chat assistant only 12 months to hit 100M weekly active users. And new figures show that growth is speeding up. ChatGPT Images released at the end of March, and an incredible 100 million new users signed up in the first week. This load was far higher than OpenAI had expected and prepared for, but the launch passed with no major outages.
