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The Pulse: Interesting AI coding stats from Cursor

The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing

Pollen tried to remove my article about Callum Negus-Fancey, and Google is assisting to it

Reliability fail: No automated zone failover for Coinbase’s global trading service

The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?

The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE

The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again

Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra

The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?

TechPays has been acquired by Levels.fyi

The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?

The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?

Is the FDE role becoming less desirable?

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code

The grief when AI writes most of the code

The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again)

The Pulse: Could a 5-day RTO be around the corner for Big Tech?

Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies

Traveling to Mongolia to meet the startup that translated my book

The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem

Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher

The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?

Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies

New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents

What caused the large AWS outage?

Creative ways to fund open source projects

New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

Cursor makes developers less effective?

The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is

Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

Stack overflow is almost dead

Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?

Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

Where did TikTok’s software engineers go?

The Pragmatic Engineer 100K Giveaway

Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible