If you or your team is looking to hire a standout software engineer working full-remote: 37Signals nearly hired this person.They only have one headcount open for the “out of this world early-career engineer” role, so this is your chance.Tomi: Didn’t make it to the next round at 37Signals but still proud of myself for being in the top 3 applicants out of 2200. Till next time @dhh

This is regulation greatly benefits all AI companies operating in or selling to the US b/c it means no additional cost for state compliance.But given how the impact of AI is unclear: is it not odd to already ban state regulation for *10 years*? ChatGPT is a mere 3 years old…Disclose.tv: NEW - Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" bans all 50 states from regulating AI for 10 years, centralizes control at the federal level, and integrates AI systems into key federal agencies.

Always amusing when someone asks that I should write an article about X… and I wrote it years back.Here’s the one on why customer support is so bad when things go south not just at Uber but all of Big Tech. Written in 2022, as relevant as everhttps://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/scaling-customer-support/Emad 🌳: @GergelyOrosz I wish if you could do an article/insight about how @uber as multi billion dollar software company doesn't have a real customer service!

Yes - @EngGuidebook as an audiobook available on all platforms, including Audible and a DRM-free purchase as well!Voytek Pituła 💙/💛/🖤: I somehow missed the news that SEG book by @GergelyOrosz is available as an audiobook.I'm 2 chapters deep and seems really promising. Will keep you posted. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DWYPJ4K3?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007

So I realized that Azure AI Foundry is pretty much the same for Azure as AWS Bedrock is for AWS(I do find AWS’s naming better for whatever reason tho. AI Foundry is a mouthful)

Business interests starting to become visible across AI IDEs?Anthropic made Sonnet 4 available on launch (today) for Copilot and Cursor. But not for Windsurf!I will speculate this could be b/c of reporting that OpenAI (Anthropic’s rival) in the process of buying WindsurfVarun Mohan: Unfortunately, Anthropic did not provide our users direct access to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 on day one. We are actively working to find capacity elsewhere so we can continue to provide the most versatile and powerful AI assistance platform, period. That is our only focus.To

Common acronyms around AI I see a lot and what they mean:LLM - large language modelSOTA - state of the artRL - reinforcement learningRLHF - reinforcement learning from human feedbackNLP - natural language processingFLOPs - floating point operations

Re I mean WOWIt’s pretty much what GitHub Copilot aims to be! With the agentic addonsThe dev is still in charge (akin to the Chief Programmer in Brooks’ model)

There’s this saying of “never meet your heroes.” It most definitely does not apply to @shanselman who is as great of a human as you’d imagine he is.His article from 10+ years ago “your words are wasted” helped me back then and also now https://www.hanselman.com/blog/your-words-are-wasted

Every AI coding tools company doing demos with React + Typescript (and maybe React Native.)Microsoft meanwhile showing off Java and .NET case studies.This doesn’t look like an accident - but a very deliberate strategy.It’s easier to win when you have no competitors…

At one of my first jobs as a dev I had to build apps using Silverlight. It was a new technology with not that much written about it and one of the best blogs I found was written by @jeffwilcox. Same during my Windows Phone dev days.Very cool to meet in-person a ~decade later!Jeff Wilcox: Best part of Build so far: meeting @GergelyOrosz in person! So much shared Windows Phone and Microsoft development stack history. I’ve been a subscriber to The Pragmatic Engineer and appreciate the curation and perspectives. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com

I was today years old when I learned that Electron was created by...... the GitHub team(It was originally built for Atom)Back in 2013Talk about impact!!

If you work in a tech company with screens in meeting rooms: what is on those screens as screensavers?At Stripe: its realtime business metric graphs. Support satisfaction, fraud rate trends, revenue for product X.Just saw these - what a way to “expose” the business to devs!

Hanging out with @ALEngineeredWhat a cool space - and the amount of Amazon patent puzzle pieces really surpised me - 13 and counting!

This aged well.Web development is still web development.The marketing ploy to try and rename web development to “web2” (in order to make ‘web3’ somehow look superior when it’s just web dev + blockhain) never spread widely. Thankfully!Gergely Orosz: Can we please stop calling web development “web2”.It’s “web”.There is no “web3”. It’s embarrassing to associate unregulated securities with a splash of code with this term.

RT Giuseppe De GiorgiBuilding, launching, and scaling ChatGPT Imagesby @GergelyOrosz https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/chatgpt-images?r=tf12u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Talking to an energy expert, I’ve learned how a big difference between Europe and US electric utilities is how in Europe you can almost always choose your electricity provider (the utility company) while in the US it’s almost always based on where you live: no choice.This encourages more competition across energy providers in Europe - as switching for customers *is* possible.

Kubernetes is the second-largest open-source project in the world. What does it do—and why is it so widely adopted?Kat Cosgrove has led several Kubernetes releases and joined The Pragmatic Engineer podcast to share the history of Kubernetes, how it's built, when it is a good (or not so good) use case, and how you can contribute to it (and why it's a good thing to do for professional and career growth).Brought to you by•⁠ @WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS https://workos.com•⁠ @modal_labs — The cloud platform for building AI applications https://modal.com/pragmatic•⁠ @GetCortexApp — Your Portal to Engineering Excellence http://cortex.io/pragmaticWatch or listen:• YouTube: https://youtu.be/vBjonut1JMk• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zbYpj9hYwJtzGoYJGvdXN• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-kubernetes-is-built-with-kat-cosgrove/id1769051199?i=1000708482879• Summary and transcript: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-kubernetes-is-built-with-katThree of my takeaways from this great conversation:𝟭. 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. Google originally built an in-house tool to manage the tens of thousands (then hundreds of thousands and later millions) of machines: this internal tool is called Borg. The roots of Kubernetes come from Borg: but Google has since donated the project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) – and today, Kubernetes is the second largest open source project, after Linux. We previously did a deepdive on How Linux is built, and touched on Google’s SRE roots in What is Reliability Engineering?𝟮. 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁. The structure of the project and all processes are well documented. The project has around 150-200 maintainers, has a few dozen SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and releases run on a 14-16 week cycle.𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 “𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱” 𝗮𝗻𝗱 “𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄” 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀. The Release Team within Kubernetes owns releases, and the Release Team has about 20-30 people participating in each release. More than of the members on the Release Team are “shadows” who get to learn on the job how a release is done – and, hopefully, in a release or two, become leads themselves!

“AI Engineering is just software engineering with AI models thrown into the stack”- @abacaj in the book AI Engineering by @chiproTotally agree - and it’s why learning how to integrate LLMs is such a big win for devs!

Give it time for more people to understand thisGergely Orosz: “AI Engineering is just software engineering with AI models thrown into the stack”- @abacaj in the book AI Engineering by @chiproTotally agree - and it’s why learning how to integrate LLMs is such a big win for devs!