Latest / June 11, 2026
4 posts from engineering leaders published June 11, 2026, by Gergely Orosz and James Stanier and David Cramer.
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from The Pulse issue from two weeks ago. Full…
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
Read about AI opinion online and you get two camps: those who believe it will fundamentally reshape how software gets built, and those who see it as useful tooling but doubt the transformative claims being made around it. Neither side has a monopoly on insight, and both can…
Search and execute primitives are how MCP gets useful at scale. You can expose thousands of capabilities without dumping every tool definition into the model context.