Gergely Orosz
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Gergely Orosz is a software engineer turned writer, based in Amsterdam, who spent about a decade as an engineer and engineering manager, including roles at Skype, Microsoft, Skyscanner, JPMorgan, and Uber, before leaving big tech in 2021 to write full-time. He writes The Pragmatic Engineer, a widely read technology and software-engineering newsletter on Substack, and has authored several books including The Software Engineer's Guidebook.
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Intel
Dex Horthy on context engineering: what actually goes into an agent's window, and why managing that is the discipline rather than prompt wording.
Dax Raad on building OpenCode, on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast.
Impressions from visiting the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor in San Francisco, and what the engineers there say about how they actually work day to day.
Spending $165,000 to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust looks expensive until you note it compressed a one-to-two-year migration into 11 days, which changes what migrations are worth attempting at all.
A keynote argument that slowing down is how teams speed up, revisited after six months in which almost everything about the tooling changed.
Gergely Orosz on what has been happening inside Meta's engineering organisation, and why the changes look self-inflicted from the outside.
The Pragmatic Engineer's Pulse on Grok's CLI being caught uploading users' local files, including SSH keys and documents, to the cloud just as the capable Grok 4.5 model was winning developers over.
The Pragmatic Engineer's Pulse on engineering departments starting to question AI ROI, with mid-sized and large companies dampening agent spend through per-engineer monthly budgets.