Gergely Orosz

The spread between how one-person dev teams are building software is fascinating: 1. Multiple agents, shipping at inference speed, not reading the code (but very involved designing it) - some 2. Heavy use of AI IDEs and a single AI agent - many 3. Mostly in the IDE - fewer

For the last ~20 years, I did most of my coding inside an IDE - the last ~15 with increasingly good autocomplete. Which is why it’s so weird that I barely opened an IDE the last two weeks, even as I pushed lots of code. I use the CLI, the web and my phone (!!) to prompt code

Working on something special for engineers + eng leaders. San Francisco, 11 Feb 2026. More soon Save the date!

Welcome to the new tech job market that increasingly represents other, non-tech white collar job markets: 1. Referrals are the best way to get a job 2. References greatly matter 3. Pedigree (past job, college etc) becomes more important 4. Background checks more thorough

I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud” Crude but also accurate Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

From an eng responsible for AI tooling at a mid-sized company (100+ devs): "Our execs read a blog post about Claude Code and ask: 'why are we not all using it?' Me: well, none of you would approve going from $40/mo on GitHub to $65/mo on Cursor... Claude Code is $150/mo."

I wonder if we’ll eventually see “model fatigue” with LLMs the same way we saw “app install fatigue” with native mobile apps. Even though it’s just a tap to install a new app, every passing year it’s harder to get people to do so -even for slightly superior apps to what you have

Talking with @martinfowler on the podcast. What would you be interested in hearing about?

What is it really like to be an engineer at Google? With @hejelinnilsson , we spent months researching the engineering culture of the search giant, and talked with 20+ current and former Googlers to bring you this deepdive. Watch or listen: • YouTube: https:// youtube.com/watch?v=sj9Q2V cfUeA … • Spotify: https:// open.spotify.com/episode/3A9BMJ bIafiBXUVJVT5RWb … • Apple: https:// podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goo gles-engineering-culture/id1769051199?i=1000732041469 … Brought to you by: •⁠  @statsig  ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. http:// statsig.com/pragmatic •⁠  @linear  – The system for modern product development. https:// linear.app/pragmatic?utm_ source=gergely&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=pragmatic-engineer … One of the very surprising things about Google, for most engineers who join the company, is *just* how much of their developer tooling is custom. I don't think any other Big Tech or scaleup is comparable. Google really is a "tech island" of its own!

Are there examples of universities that already integrate AI agents into computer science programs? Feels like one of those things that will necessarily be part of all CS programs in a few years - in the meantime, pretty much all students prob already use them anyways…

I love Substack. Always have. Their team is great. But a silent change could force me off the platform if it stays. They broke email. My paid subscribers cannot read today's paid newsletter on mobile without downloading the Substack app. @SubstackInc: roll this back. Now.

The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it, and it’s secure. It’s logged into my email, Stripe account, stores my passwords and credit cards. A browser is useful if it does all these. These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…

Us devs complain when the AI coding tool costs $20/mo but then drops to lower models when you use it too much Complain when it’s $200/mo but it still runs out when you use it too much Complain when it’s free but data used for training Complain when it’s free but with ads…