THE PRAGMATIC ENGINEER
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-03] The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
       An in-depth report by Reuters details how Meta’s leadership decided to slash team sizes by 60%. Zuckerberg changed his mind, and now the company is stuck with low morale and culture turned mercenary.
       
 (HTM) [2026-09-01] How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-27] The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI
       Asana migrated off testing framework Enzyme in two weeks: without AI, this work would surely have been kicked down the road. Airbnb and Uber share similar stories and AI seems excellent at migrations.
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-27] Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-20] The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave
       In what was predictable: Meta’s layoffs and forced reassignments pushed engineers not impacted by either to look for a new job. Meta is now offering large equity retainers, and it doesn’t seem working
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-19] The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud
       Devs discover that Grok CLI pushed all local files, .env files and git history have been pushed to a GCP bucket, unencrypted. SpaceX’s initial reaction? Blame the devs
       
 (HTM) [2026-08-05] The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy
       In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
       
 (HTM) [2026-07-30] The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
       Spotify’s podcast platform has become chronically unreliable since the company’s leadership started boasting about AI adoption. Competitors haven’t had similar issues, so I offboarded from Spotify.
       
 (HTM) [2026-07-23] The Pulse: New trend - concern about massive increase in code review load
       Top of mind for engineering leaders: what to do about the growing code review load, and how devs are starting to review code less thoroughly than before? Many questions, but few proven solutions.
       
 (HTM) [2026-07-16] The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
       To a sceptic, spending $165K to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust sounds very expensive. But to a realist, shortening a 1-2 year migration down to 11 days opens amazing new opportunities for devs. However, ...
       
 (HTM) [2026-07-09] The Pulse: Interesting AI coding stats from Cursor
       Power users generate 10x as many lines of code vs the median, most of the AI spend is coming from input tokens not output ones, and almost half of AI changes are accepted without manual review by devs ...
       
 (HTM) [2026-07-02] The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing
       Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options.
       
 (HTM) [2026-06-28] Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, and Google is assisting with it
       
 (HTM) [2026-06-23] Reliability fail: No automated zone failover for Coinbase’s global trading service
       
 (HTM) [2026-06-11] The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?