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Software engineer and writer of The Pragmatic Engineer, a widely read newsletter covering software engineering practices and the tech industry.
David Heinemeier Hansson said in his Rails World keynote that 37signals, the 27-year-old company behind Ruby on Rails, is done writing code by hand. Its stack now follows how well agents write each language, and other teams can measure that on their own code first.
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CTOs told Gergely Orosz that CPU spot pricing, once up to 90% below list, has nearly vanished as AI workloads absorb spare cloud capacity. Teams whose compute budgets assumed spot rates now have to plan for getting capacity at all, on top of paying more for it.
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Origin's staged beta and a six-hour-42-minute GitHub incident landed in the same news cycle. The useful takeaway is not a migration plan, it is knowing where your code lives when the host is gone.
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Gergely Orosz's visit found finance, recruitment and legal teams going from roughly zero to 90% Codex use in four months, with almost half of that arriving before anyone made the tool comfortable for them.
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Cost per request is down 34% at Uber and cost per session down 52%, and total AI spend has been flat since March even as token use grew. Pinterest and AT&T report similar savings from open models.
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Reuters reporting on Project OT, relayed by the Pragmatic Engineer, shows Meta's reduction target was fixed in January while the productivity claim underneath it was still untested in May, and half the plan ran anyway.
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The plan assumed smaller teams would work as well as before, which is a bet on 2.5 times the output per head. The version that actually shipped, a 10% layoff plus infra engineers seconded to labeling, left outages behind.
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The two-week Enzyme removal is credible enough, but it is priced against a five-year staffing plan written by people who did not want the project, and Airbnb's published numbers let you check the rate that plan assumed.
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The Pragmatic Engineer reports staff and principal engineers leaving for Anthropic, OpenAI and Google despite one-off grants of $400K to $1M+. The cost saving ended. The retention damage did not.
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According to the Pragmatic Engineer, Meta has started making one-off equity counteroffers it never used to make, and UK layoff notices were reversed after staff had already begun interviewing.
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An independent researcher says the CLI uploaded a repository it was told not to read, plus a .env secrets file, verbatim. That is a procurement question, not a benchmark question.
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