The Pragmatic Engineer

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

High-performance software engineering is undergoing a fundamental shift as AI agents transform from simple autocomplete tools into powerful partners for building complex, production-ready systems. Peter Mattis, CTO of Cockroach Labs and veteran of early Google projects like Gmail and Colossus, illustrates how deep doma...

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

AI Skills with Matt Pocock

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

Building and evolving AI coding agents requires a strategic balance between local execution and cloud-based scalability. Codex, an open-source coding harness, demonstrates how prioritizing correctness and efficiency—often through Rust—enables agents to handle complex tasks like automated code reviews and security verif...

Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

From "napkin math" to turbopuffer

Context engineering with Dex Horthy

The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry

Tech interviews with NeetCode

Slow down to speed up: AI and software engineering

CI/CD with Robert Erez

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower’s journey from a high school dropout installing DSL modems to a distinguished engineer at Google illustrates the power of self-directed learning and pragmatic problem-solving. His career highlights the evolution of infrastructure from manual, imperative scripting to declarative systems like Kubernetes,...

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Building high-quality software in the age of AI requires more than just rapid code generation; it demands rigorous product strategy and a commitment to long-term architectural integrity. While AI agents significantly lower the friction of writing code, they often mask the "muted prickle" of technical debt, allowing dev...

Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating

The rise of AI coding agents is fundamentally shifting software engineering, introducing both unprecedented productivity and significant risks regarding code quality and system complexity. Mario Zechner, creator of the minimalist agent Pi, and Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask, argue that current agentic workflows often...