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   20 May 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

   Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

   Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry ⁠ – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers • ⁠ Craft Conference ⁠ : join Gergely, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne and others at the conference dedicated to the art and science of software delivery craft. — Rust is one of the most admired programming languages around – and also one of the hardest to learn. What makes developers stick with it? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I sit down…

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   13 May 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

   TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

   Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. — Anders Hejlsberg is a living legend and one of the most influential programming language designers of all time. He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and also TypeScript. As well as that, he spent nearly a decade at the pioneering dev tools company, Borland,…

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   29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

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

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a minimalist, self-modifying AI coding agent, that is the foundation upon which OpenClaw (created by Peter Steinberger) is built. Meanwhile, Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, and a longtime user of Pi. The pair are also friends. I sat down with Mario and Armin for the latest episode of the Pragmatic…

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   22 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

   Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Martin Kleppmann is a researcher and the author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications , one of the most influential books on modern distributed systems. As of this month, the second, heavily updated edition of the book is out . In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer, we discuss Martin’s career in tech building startups, how he ended up writing…

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   8 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

   DHH’s new way of writing code

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy, co-founder and CTO of 37signals (maker of Basecamp and HEY), and the author of several books including the best-seller, Remote: Office Not Required , co-written with Jason Fried . Six months ago, in an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast , David shared how he doesn’t use…

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   18 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

   Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — How did a tiny team of 30 engineers build the world-famous messaging app more than a decade ago, and what can dev teams learn from that feat today? Jean Lee was engineer #19 at WhatsApp , joining when the company was still small, with almost no formal processes. She helped it scale to hundreds of millions of users, went through the $19B…

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   11 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

   From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Steve Yegge has spent decades writing software and thinking about how the craft evolves. From his early years at Amazon and Google, to his influential blog posts, he has often been early at spotting shifts in how software gets built. In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer , I talk with Steve about how AI is changing engineering work, why he…

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   4 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

   Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Boris Cherny is the creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic. He previously spent five years at Meta as a Principal Engineer and is the author of the book Programming TypeScript . In this episode of Pragmatic Engineer , we went through how Claude Code was built and what it means when engineers no longer write most of the code themselves. We…

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   25 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

   Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code

   Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto changed, thanks to AI tools? Mitchell Hashimoto is one of the most influential infrastructure engineers of our time, and is one of the most pragmatic builders I’ve met. He is the co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty. In this episode, we talk about how he got into software…

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    12 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

    The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

    Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Andrey Breslav is the creator of Kotlin and the founder of CodeSpeak , a new programming language that aims to reduce boilerplate by replacing trivial code with concise, plain-English descriptions. He led Kotlin’s design at JetBrains through its early releases, shaping both the language and its compiler as Kotlin grew into a core part of the…