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AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026
Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more…
Mar 3
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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The Pulse: AI token spending out of control – what’s next?
Details from 15 tech companies on the rapid growth of token spend, and their responses to it. Also: AI vendors can’t keep up with demand, plummeting…
Apr 23
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Gergely Orosz
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Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
Martin Kleppmann on scaling, his updated Designing Data-Intensive Applications, and what’s next for AI-era systems.
Apr 22
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Gergely Orosz
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Learnings from conducting ~1,000 interviews at Amazon
Steve Huynh, formerly Principal Engineer at Amazon, shares observations from 10+ years of interviewing software engineers, and an excerpt from his new…
Apr 21
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Gergely Orosz
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Steve Huynh
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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
… which will probably be the shortest-lived trend because it’s so wasteful. Also: coding AI agent subsidies could be ending, Cal.com going closed source…
Apr 16
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Gergely Orosz
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The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends
Our AI tooling survey finds concerns about mounting AI costs, more engineers hitting usage limits, and AI tools having uneven effects upon different…
Apr 14
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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DHH’s new way of writing code
David Heinemeier Hansson shares why he shifted to an agent-first AI workflow, and what it means for how software is built and who builds it.
Apr 8
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Gergely Orosz
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Cycles of disruption in the tech industry: with software pioneers Kent Beck & Martin Fowler
Parallels between technology shifts in the past decades and what we’re seeing with AI. Also: ways to avoid burnout when working with AI agents, TDD back…
Apr 7
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Gergely Orosz
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