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The Pragmatic Engineer

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers, AI engineers and engineering leaders, useful for those working in tech.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 531 posts collected by Sputnik

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“The resilience to avoid just copying your ticket into an AI prompt and then trying to check in that result. Like if that is all that you are doing, you can be replaced with a very small shell script. Like that is not a defensible advantage for you being on staff.” — Titus Winters, The Pragmatic Engineer
Titus Winters · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“A lot of the value of AI is not in doing the same thing faster. It's doing a harder, more valuable thing that you wouldn't have even thought about. And if your productivity measures are the logical equivalent of counting how many widgets are coming out of the factory, and then you start producing super gold-plated deluxe widgets, there's no way to measure that.” — Titus Winters, The Pragmatic Engineer
Titus Winters · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Stop grading just the code that they turned in. Grade instead, what are the prompts that you used to get here? Also, what are the tests that you provided?… We don't need another essay on Catcher… We don't need another linked list. We've been using the artifact that's produced from that as a proxy for you put in the time and the struggle… It might be more appropriate to just focus on: do we have evidence that you've struggled and learned?” — Titus Winters, The Pragmatic Engineer
Titus Winters · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think one of the worst parts of being an engineering manager in the 2010s is ... when you joined the ranks to engineering management, one of the first lessons you'd get is like, hey, you need to never make a technical decision again.” — Will Larson, The Pragmatic Engineer
Will Larson · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm okay with not looking at the code as long as you're doing other things to make sure the system is operating correctly, and that you're thinking critically about how the system needs to change and evolve. If you're just not looking at the code and you're not caring about those other things, well, then you deserve everything that's going to happen to you.” — Sam Newman, The Pragmatic Engineer
Sam Newman · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Would I use that as defense against a distributed denial of service attack? No, because then your distributed denial of service attack becomes a distributed denial of cash attack.” — Sam Newman, The Pragmatic Engineer
Sam Newman · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's just a tool in a toolbox. I've described microservices as being an architecture of last resort.” — Sam Newman, The Pragmatic Engineer
Sam Newman · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →

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Guests

Addy Osmani (4 episodes), Kent Beck (3 episodes), Farhan Thawar (3 episodes), Charity Majors (3 episodes), Katelyn Lesse (3 episodes), Sulman Choudhry (3 episodes), Bryan Cantrill (3 episodes), Steve Yegge (3 episodes), Steve Huynh (2 episodes), Volodymyr Giginiak (2 episodes), Laura Tacho (2 episodes), Boris Cherny (2 episodes), and 171 more.