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The Pragmatic Engineer37signals, the creator of Ruby on Rails, moves toward using agents to generate nearly all its code, prompting debate about coding by hand. The roundup also mentions Amazon and Meta struggling to hire engineers and the possibility of code reviews going away.
The Pragmatic EngineerShopify drops React Native after previously expressing strong support for the framework, with the change attributed to AI. The shift concerns the e-commerce company’s mobile-app technology strategy.
The Pragmatic EngineerSam Newman discusses when to use microservices and how to build resilient distributed systems. The conversation also addresses how AI is changing software development.
The Pragmatic EngineerOpenAI’s Codex has become central to the company’s internal software-development process, which the account describes as an agentic software factory. It examines the engineering challenges involved in building for one billion users.
The Pragmatic EngineerA report says Meta considered cutting teams by 60% because it feared AI-native startups could accomplish more with fewer people. It also discusses concerns about the company’s engineering culture and AI infrastructure at Ramp, alongside a claim that GitHub’s load doubles in four months.
The Pragmatic EngineerFintech company Ramp builds its own coding agent, Inspect, rather than relying on an off-the-shelf option. The account examines the company’s approach and its claim that Inspect puts it ahead of coding agents from frontier AI labs.
The Pragmatic EngineerAsana completes a testing framework migration in two weeks, a task it had postponed for years, as AI changes the economics of software migrations. The report also considers whether AI startups could reduce Gartner’s relevance.
The Pragmatic EngineerOpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux discusses how the company builds Codex and its effects on software development. The discussion focuses on the product’s construction and its role in changing how developers work.
The Pragmatic EngineerA technology roundup describes companies shifting simpler workloads to open AI models as a way to reduce AI spending by about 50%. It also points to automated software maintenance as another topic in the roundup.
The Pragmatic EngineerA keynote at LDX3 New York reviews what has changed, what remains the same, and what is broken in the tech industry in 2026. The material includes a full video and a summary of the keynote.
The Pragmatic EngineerA technology-news roundup covers Firebase’s global outage and response, OpenAI’s platform strategy, and company interest in open models. The supplied details do not provide further information about the outage or the other developments.
The Pragmatic EngineerMatt Pocock discusses using AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software. He argues that engineering fundamentals remain important as these tools become part of development work.
The Pragmatic EngineerThe Pulse’s issue 191 warns that CPU shortages may affect compute-intensive services and recommends reserving more compute. It also covers COVID-era startups, engineers’ systems expertise as AI handles incidents, and other topics.
The Pragmatic EngineerCockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and using AI to write more code without sacrificing quality. The conversation concerns engineering practices for distributed databases and AI-assisted development.
The Pragmatic EngineerMaggie Appleton discusses what engineers can learn from designers, how they work with AI agents, and why human judgment remains important. The conversation focuses on design engineering and the role of people alongside AI tools.
The Pragmatic EngineerA discussion examines Microsoft's efforts to make Windows more accommodating to AI agents and developers. The topics include Linux on Windows, local models, and GPUs.
The Pragmatic EngineerA discussion examines how code review may need to change as AI generates more code than developers can track. It considers whether the long-standing review process can adapt or whether alternative approaches may replace it.
The Pragmatic EngineerAddy Osmani reflects on his 14 years at Google and discusses how AI agents are changing software engineering and developer workflows. He also considers the skills engineers need as those workflows evolve.
The Pragmatic EngineerMore CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are leaving senior roles for career breaks, with AI and “founder mode” among the reasons. The trend concerns leaders in high-status, in-demand engineering positions.
The Pragmatic EngineerThe Pragmatic Engineer marks its fifth anniversary and looks at how the publication has changed and what it plans next. It also launches an essay contest on how software engineering is changing.
