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   28 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

   The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"

   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. — Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits, it might appear like it's a company. But it’s not. This is one dude sitting at home having fun." How does he do it? Peter Steinberger is the creator of Clawdbot (as of yesterday: renamed to…

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   21 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

   How AWS S3 is built

   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. — Amazon S3 is one of the largest distributed systems ever built, storing and serving data for a significant portion of the internet. Behind its simple interfaces hides an enormous amount of engineering work, careful tradeoffs, and long-term thinking. In this episode, I sit down with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of Data and Analytics at AWS, who has…

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   17 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 39 min

   The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. •⁠ Linear ⁠ — ⁠ The system for modern product development. — How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems during both the Dotcom Boom and the Dotcom Bust. Today, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer, where he works on modern server infrastructure. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer , Bryan joins me to break down how modern computing infrastructure evolved. We discuss why…

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   3 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

   Being a founding engineer at an AI startup

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. •⁠ Linear ⁠ — ⁠ The system for modern product development. — Michelle Lim joined Warp as engineer number one and is now building her own startup, Flint. She brings a strong product-first mindset shaped by her time at Facebook, Slack, Robinhood, and Warp. Michelle shares why she chose Warp over safer offers, how she evaluates early-stage opportunities, and what she believes distinguishes great founding engineers. Together, we cover how product-first engineers create value, why negotiating…

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   26 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 8 min

   Code security for software engineers

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig are helping make the first-ever Pragmatic Summit a reality. Join me and 400 other top engineers and leaders on 11 February, in San Francisco for a special one-day event. Reserve your spot here. •⁠ Linear ⁠ — ⁠ The system for modern product development. Engineering teams today move much faster, thanks to AI. Because of this, coordination increasingly becomes a problem. This is where Linear helps fast-moving teams stay focused. Check out Linear. — As software engineers, what should we…

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   12 Nov 2025 · 1 hr

   Netflix’s Engineering Culture

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig enables two cultures at once: continuous shipping and experimentation. Companies like Notion went from single-digit experiments per quarter to over 300 experiments with Statsig. Start using Statsig with a generous free tier, and a $50K startup program. •⁠ Linear ⁠ — ⁠ The system for modern product development. When most companies hit real scale, they start to slow down, and are faced with “process debt.” This often hits software engineers the most. Companies switch to Linear to hit a…

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   5 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 32 min

   From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Companies like Graphite, Notion, and Brex rely on Statsig to measure the impact of the pace they ship. Get a 30-day enterprise trial here . •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Linear is a heavy user of Swift: they just redesigned their native iOS app using their own take on Apple’s Liquid Glass design language. The new app is about speed and performance – just like Linear is. Check it out . — Chris Lattner is one of the most influential engineers of the past two decades.…

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   29 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 8 min

   Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. — Addy Osmani is Head of Chrome Developer Experience at Google, where he leads teams focused on improving performance, tooling, and the overall developer experience for building on the web. If you’ve ever opened Chrome’s Developer Tools bar, you’ve definitely used features Addy has built. He’s also the author of several books, including his latest, Beyond Vibe Coding , which explores how AI is changing software development. In this…

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   15 Oct 2025 · 2 hr 46 min

   Google’s engineering culture

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Something interesting is happening with the latest generation of tech giants. Rather than building advanced experimentation tools themselves, companies like Anthropic, Figma, Notion and a bunch of others… are just using Statsig. Statsig has rebuilt this entire suite of data tools that was available at maybe 10 or 15 giants until now. Check out Statsig. •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Linear is just so fast to use – and it enables velocity in product workflows.…

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    8 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

    Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher

    Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Most teams end up in this situation: ship a feature to 10% of users, wait a week, check three different tools, try to correlate the data, and you’re still unsure if it worked. The problem is that each tool has its own user identification and segmentation logic. Statsig solved this problem by building everything within a unified platform. Check out Statsig. •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. In the episode, Armin talks about how he uses an army of “AI interns” at his…