The Pragmatic Engineer

“The Pragmatic Engineer” delves into the intricacies of architecting enterprise-level solutions with a focus on knowledge base infrastructure, generative AI, and data augmentation for machine learning. It explores the challenges of moving beyond static data libraries to interact with living data, emphasizing the importance of understanding over mere indexing. The document discusses the implementation of secure semantic memory layers, multi-tenant pipelines, and the utilization of advanced technologies like Spark, EMR, and Airflow to build fault-tolerant and responsive systems. Additionally, it addresses the significance of context, precision in search mechanisms, and the role of vector embeddings in enhancing semantic understanding.

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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

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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

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All content on The Pragmatic Summit. Uploaded one session at the time.

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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”

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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

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A behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon S3 is designed for durability and correctness at massive scale, drawing on over a decade of operating one of the world’s largest distributed systems with Mai-Lan...