Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny • Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on building AI-powered coding tools, working with agents in parallel, and how the role of the software engineer is evolving in an AI-first world.

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. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source • An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code • Mitchell Hashimoto on building HashiCorp, navigating the cloud giants, and how AI agents have transformed his day-to-day engineering workflow.

The Future of Software Engineering with AI: Six Predictions • Notes from The Pragmatic Summit and ‘The Future of Software Development’ workshop

The Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams? • Also: Anthropic bans third-party devs while Codex embraces them, Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, a lot more software gets created with AI, and more

How Codex is built • A deepdive into how OpenAI's Codex team builds its coding agent, how engineers use it, and what it could mean for the future of software engineering. Exclusive

The Pragmatic Summit recordings and summaries • All content on The Pragmatic Summit. Uploaded one session at the time.

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin • Andrey Breslav, creator of Kotlin and founder of CodeSpeak, shares lessons from designing Kotlin and why he’s building a new language to keep humans in control in the age of AI.

Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering • Steve Yegge on the 8 levels of AI adoption, why big companies may be doomed, and why he and many AI-adopters feel drained from using agents non-stop

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch • I sit down with Grady Booch to put today’s AI automation claims in historical context and explain why software engineering is entering another golden age, not disappearing.

Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools • Tech businesses from seed-stage startups to publicly-listed companies reveal how they select and roll out next-generation IDEs, CLIs and code review tools. And how they learn which ones work… and whic

The Pulse #161: open source projects overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports • Also: AI agents keep changing engineers’ working styles, layoffs at big and profitable companies, “AI-native” techies increasingly in demand, and more

The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read" • How Peter Steinberger, creator of Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), builds and ships like a full team by centering his development workflow around AI agents.

Inside one startup’s crazy fast AI-first makeover • Craft Docs resisted AI hype as a nimble, well-run startup – but has just made a sharp pivot to AI, building a universal agentic tool everyone there now uses. The results are phenomenal. Exclusive.

The Pulse #160: Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead” • Also: New trend of staff+ engineers and managers using AI a lot, replacing a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code, and more

How AWS S3 is built • A behind-the-scenes look at how the world's largest storage system is designed for durability and correctness at massive scale - including the use of techniques like formal methods.

The Pulse #159: Long-running agents and orchestrating lots of them • One trend this year may well be experimentation with agent orchestration and long-running agents – which is already underway. Also: Claude Code bans OpenCode while Codex embraces it, and more

Design Systems for Software Engineers • A comprehensive guide to design system engineering (DSE): when it’s relevant, how AI changes things, and pointers for getting started. From Michael Abernethy, Principal Frontend Engineer at Rubrik

The Pulse #158: new ways of coding with AI tools • The “Ralph method” and running multiple agents at once gain popularity, AI job cuts at dev tooling and education providers, four nines of uptime after quitting the cloud, and more

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? • No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry

The Pragmatic Engineer in 2025 • The most-read articles of the year, plus some personal favorites, and a look back at a busy year in tech

The Pulse #157: Internal dev tooling at Meta & the “trajectories” feature • Also: GitHub upsets devs by charging for self-hosted CI/CD, Warsaw could become the EU’s new “tech capital”, hiring juniors is profitable now, and more

The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide • Bryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what today's software engineers can learn from it.

How AWS deals with a major outage • What happens when there’s a massive outage at AWS? A member of AWS’s Incident Response team lifts the lid, after playing a key role in resolving the leading cloud provider’s most recent major outage

The Pulse #156: Beware of global configuration changes in large systems • Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more

Frictionless: why great developer experience can help teams win in the ‘AI age’ • Exclusive excerpts from the newly-released book ‘Frictionless’, by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda.

Building MCP servers in the real world • How engineers and teams use MCP servers: from debugging to working with legacy systems, & giving non-devs more access. Details from 40+ devs – with some surprises

The Pulse #155: 5-day RTO looms for those at Big Tech? • Also: senior engineers might be more efficient with AI tools than juniors, Anthropic and Claude Code on a roll, and more.

Being a founding engineer at an AI startup • Michelle Lim shares how to evaluate early-stage startup roles, negotiate equity, and grow into a high-impact founding engineer.

A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs • Evals are a new toolset for any and all AI engineers – and software engineers should also know about them. Move from guesswork to a systematic engineering process for improving AI quality.

Code security for software engineers • Johannes Dahse, VP of Code Security at Sonar, breaks down where vulnerabilities really come from, how developers can prevent them, and how AI is reshaping the security landscape.

Holiday gift ideas for techies • Gift ideas and inspiration for the tech workers in your life (and maybe yourself) this holiday season

The Pulse #154: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem • Also: why it’s not practical to build for CDN redundancy, Google launches AI IDE Antigravity externally while using Jetski internally, more AI fakers caught in remote interviews, and more

How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler • Martin Fowler breaks down how AI is transforming software architecture and development, from refactoring and deterministic techniques to the timeless principles that still anchor great engineering.

Career paths for software engineers at large tech companies • Tactics for getting promoted to Levels 5, 6, and 7, and advice on when to make your move into management. Former Amazon VP, Ethan Evans, reveals what he saw work during a successful Big Tech career

The Pulse #153: Is Microsoft too early to agentic OS – like with smartphones? • Also: agents coming the default way to write code, inside Cursor’s unique engineering culture, and more. Plus: early applications for The Pragmatic Summit

Netflix’s Engineering Culture • Peek inside Netflix’s engineering culture with CTO Elizabeth Stone, as she shares how the company has no formal performance reviews, learns from failures, and builds at a global scale.

The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: a recap • Reflections on publishing The Software Engineer’s Guidebook two years ago, which has sold around 40,000 copies. Also: an unexpected trip to Mongolia to visit the startup which translated it

The Pulse #152: Cursor and GitHub double down on agents • Also: AI-assisted interviews at Meta, pay for Directors of Engineering at VC-funded startups, and is OpenAI inflating the bubble? And more

From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner • I sit down with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Swift, and Mojo, to discuss how better language and compiler design can open the door to faster, more accessible AI development.

Tech jobs market 2025, part 3: job seekers’ stories • Details on the state of hiring from software engineers and EMs in the market for a new job. Insights on what’s happening from recruitment platforms: junior rebound, picky employers & a tough market

The Pulse #151: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame? • Also: OpenAI becomes for-profit and takes on Chrome, NVIDIA the biggest Big Tech by a distance, Citibank annoys premium customers for weeks with disastrous product rollout, and more

Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani • Google’s Head of Chrome Developer Experience, Addy Osmani, shares how AI is transforming the way he codes—accelerating development while still relying on human expertise to ensure real quality

San Francisco is back as the world’s leading tech hub • Impressions from a week in San Fran spent visiting engineering teams at Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, Wispr, Factory, and more

The Pulse: AWS takes down a good part of the internet • On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage, and learnings from the incident

What is good software architecture? • What good architecture looks like, how to improve your skill at building it –and why Architects are not always the answer. Guest post by Matthew Hawthorne, who built large systems at Netflix & Twitter

Google’s engineering culture • Elin Nilsson and I unpack how Google’s engineering culture, tools, and systems actually work behind the scenes.

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3 • Which tools do software engineers use for observability, oncall tooling, feature flags, frontend & mobile work, and for developer tooling? Results from our survey, based on 3,000+ responses by readers

The Pulse #149: New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents • Also: the ACP protocol, AI security tooling, comparing interview experiences across 8 tech companies, and more