The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pulse #94: OpenAI’s ethics crisis

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: Industry pulse. Replit pivots from “hobbyist coders” to enterprise, Microsoft takes on Apple with ARM64 laptop, Vercel’s late-stage funding round, GitHub Copilot extensions, and more.

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Startups on hard mode: Oxide. Part 1: Hardware

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a subscriber-only issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe:

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The Pulse #93: OpenAI makes Google dance

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: Industry pulse. NetBSD and Gentoo ban AI-generated commits, StackOverflow to sell data to OpenAI, AWS losing market share, jail time for for Tornado Cash developer, and more.

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Applied AI Software Engineering: RAG

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Getting an Engineering Executive Job

So, just how do you win that first, coveted CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or Director of Engineering role? I know several professionals who have achieved such promotions internally, and a couple who were successful external candidates for their first CTO role.

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The Pulse #92: GitHub’s AI-assisted developer workflow vision

Programming note: next week, I’ll be on spring break, spending time in Florida, visiting my in-laws. This will mean no The Pulse on Thursday: but there will still be a Tuesday article, as usual. Thank you for your understanding and support! The Pulse is

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What is Security Engineering? Part 2.

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The Pulse #91: The end of US non-competes within sight?

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: Industry pulse. IBM buys HashiCorp; Google’s new operating reality; Section 174 still not repealed; Meta’s unexpected AI play, and more.

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Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Before we start: AI tooling for software development feels like it has hit "peak hype" across mainstream media. We would like to do a "reality check" and find out how engineers and teams are using these tools (and which tools/use cases are genuinely efficient). Please

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The Pulse #90: Devin reversing ambitious claims

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: Industry pulse. Fintech valuations rising again; pre-earnings layoffs at Tesla and Google; Google fires staff trying to interfere with business; Rippling offering a secondary to its employees, and more.

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