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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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.
Gergely Orosz reports a new CPU shortage taking shape as AI agents' heavy tool-calling drives compute demand beyond the earlier GPU and memory crunches, and argues teams should reserve compute capacity now.
Details a cost-cutting pattern spreading across major tech engineering orgs: shifting simpler AI workloads from proprietary frontier models to open-weight models with smart routing, cutting AI bills by roughly half at companies including Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T.
Pragmatic Engineer's state-of-the-industry snapshot from lab visits and new GitHub, Factory AI and Linear data: near-universal agent-written code, multi-agent workflows, broken review and quality assumptions, and what endures.