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2 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. Before we start, an important correction from last week’s The Pulse: this publication was among those to incorrectly report that defunct AI startup, Builder.ai, faked its product by hiring 700 human engineers to pretend to be an AI product called Natasha.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Gergely Orosz
2 hours ago Stop using the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks immediately and contact the company for a free replacement. Anker has issued a recall for its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to a “potential issue with the lithium-ion battery” that could pose a fire safety risk. The company has …
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2 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. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love—Kent Beck is one of the most influential figures in modern software development.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Cursor is an AI-powered IDE which seems the most loved among engineers. In a survey we ran last year, Cursor was the most common answer to the question “what is your favorite editor with GenAI features that help with your work?”. Anysphere is the startup behind Cursor, founded in 2022, with the first version of Cursor released two years ago, in March 2023. Last week, Anysphere shared they’d raised a $900M Series C round, which values the company at $9.9B(!).
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2 weeks ago | 
open.substack.com | Gergely Orosz
Cursor is an AI-powered IDE which seems the most loved among engineers. In a survey we ran last year, Cursor was the most common answer to the question “what is your favorite editor with GenAI features that help with your work?”. Anysphere is the startup behind Cursor, founded in 2022, with the first version of Cursor released two years ago, in March 2023. Last week, Anysphere shared they’d raised a $900M Series C round, which values the company at $9.9B(!).
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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:AI-assisted coding in practice: Cloudflare and OAuth. A software engineer at Cloudflare built a production-grade OAuth library in five days, making very heavy use of Claude. The full commit history, alongside prompts with Claude are published. This approach sped up development by 2-5x, but feels like an outlier for AI-assisted coding.
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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. Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Sinch — Connect with customers at every step of their journey. Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications. —How has Microsoft changed since its founding in 1975, especially in how it builds tools for developers?
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz |Elin Nilsson
The term “vibe coding” is relatively new and has been gaining traction recently, since computer scientist Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI cofounder and Tesla’s former director of AI, used it in a now widely-referenced tweet which helpfully provided a definition. There were a few earlier references to “vibe coding”, but Andrej’s post seems to have propelled it into wider usage. Today, terms like “I vibe coded this app” can be found in developers’ lingo, especially frontend-focused devs.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Gergely Orosz
2 days agoBeginners Guide to Vibe Coding (No Experience Needed)Have you ever wished you could skip the steep learning curve of programming and jump straight into creating something amazing? What if coding didn’t …8 hours agoAI ‘vibe coding’ startups burst onto scene with sky-high valuationsBy Anna Tong, Krystal Hu NEW YORK, NY (Reuters) -Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, return on investment in generative AI has been elusive, but one area stands out: software development.
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1 month 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 …
