The Pragmatic Engineer

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.

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.

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(!).

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.

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?