The Pragmatic Engineer16 minWhen 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 Engineer16 minNo longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry
The Pragmatic Engineer11 minThe most-read articles of the year, plus some personal favorites, and a look back at a busy year in tech
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 Pragmatic Engineer11 minBryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what today’s engineers should learn from it.
The Pragmatic Engineer14 minWhat 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
Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more
The Pragmatic Engineer23 minExclusive excerpts from the newly-released book ‘Frictionless’, by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda.
The Pragmatic Engineer20 minHow 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