Latest / June 23, 2026
8 posts from engineering leaders published June 23, 2026, by Gergely Orosz, Kent Beck, Filippo Valsorda and 4 more.
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 this past The Pulse issue . Full subscribers…
On the failure of analogy as a communication device
We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?
Scaling The core problem of scaling a team is that not everyone can know everything. Scaling is the work of systematizing that – so that things are understandable, knowable. It’s turning “tribal knowledge” into documentation, automation, and process. It used to be that only the…
What happens if I just point a git server at an object storage bucket? Back when I was porting agent sandboxes to Go , I built everything on top of billy , a filesystem abstraction for Go. The whole trick of the project was teaching a Tigris bucket to act enough like a…
Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people build something on top of coding agents that feels meaningfully different from…
Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.