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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…

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   24 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 44 min

   Hypergrowth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of Statsig - decided to acquire the company, the news announced last week. Talk about validation! Check out Statsig. •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Here’s an interesting story: OpenAI switched to Linear as a way to establish a shared vocabulary between teams. Every project now…

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   10 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 30 min

   Code Complete with Steve McConnell

   Brought to You By: •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a huge user of Statsig - decided to acquire the company, the news announced last week. Talk about validation! Check out Statsig. •⁠ Linear – The system for modern product development. Here’s an interesting story: OpenAI switched to Linear as a way to establish a shared vocabulary between teams. Every project now…

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   6 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

   The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker

   Brought to You By: •⁠ WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. — In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I sit down with Peter Walker , Head of Insights at Carta , to break down how venture capital and startups themselves are changing. We go deep on the numbers: why fewer companies are getting funded despite record VC investment levels, how hiring has shifted dramatically since 2021, and why solo founders are on the rise even though most VCs…

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   23 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 12 min

   Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho

   Supported by Our Partners •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. — There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, to cut through the hype and share how well (or not) AI tools are actually working inside engineering orgs. Laura shares insights from DX’s research across 180+ companies, including surprising findings about where developers save the most…

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   9 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

   What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon? With Steve Huynh

   Supported by Our Partners •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love. — Steve Huynh spent 17 years at Amazon, including four as a Principal Engineer. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I join Steve in his studio for a deep dive into what the Principal role actually involves, why the path from Senior to Principal is so tough, and how even strong engineers can get stuck. Not because they’re unqualified, but because the bar is…

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   2 Jul 2025 · 47 min

   How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar

   Supported by Our Partners •⁠ WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. — What happens when a company goes all in on AI? At Shopify, engineers are expected to utilize AI tools, and they’ve been doing so for longer than most. Thanks to early access to models from GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, and Anthropic, the company has had a head start in figuring out what works. In this live episode from LDX3 in London, I spoke with Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering,…

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   18 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 27 min

   The present, past and future of GitHub

   Supported by Our Partners •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — GitHub recently turned 17 years old—but how did it start, how has it evolved, and what does the future look like as AI reshapes developer workflows? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Thomas Dohmke , CEO of GitHub . Thomas has been a GitHub user for 16 years and an employee for 7. We talk about GitHub’s early architecture, its remote-first…

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   11 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

   TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck

   Supported by Our Partners • Sonar — Code quality and code security for ALL code. •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love. — Kent Beck is one of the most influential figures in modern software development. Creator of Extreme Programming (XP), co-author of The Agile Manifesto , and a pioneer of Test-Driven Development (TDD), he’s shaped how teams write, test, and think about code. Now, with over five decades of programming experience, Kent is still pushing boundaries—this time with…

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    4 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

    50 Years of Microsoft and Developer Tools with Scott Guthrie

    Supported by Our Partners •⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. •⁠ Sinch ⁠ — Connect with customers at every step of their journey. •⁠ Modal ⁠ — The cloud platform for building AI applications. — How has Microsoft changed since its founding in 1975, especially in how it builds tools for developers? In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer , I sit down with Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI at Microsoft. Scott has been with the company for 28 years. He built the first prototype of ASP.NET , led the Windows Phone team, led up…